gangsta

the kindred of the lost 

invoked with coffee and loneliness

you discuss yourselves slowly into madness

out goes all the reasoned notions
in come
drinks
and potions
pills

they wake that morning and turn on the major stations

watch excitable people talking 

about a predator

who creeps in the bushes

snatches kids 

outside school yards 

watch you from far on the other side of sanity

see the storms
that blew apart your dark life
shredded you down
stripped your humanity
to the bare animal core
your ways have

left a cruel sneer on your face
an ugliness in your hard eyes no makeup will hide

a settled look of disgust
smears the mask you wore this  last decade
your insides dry and brittle
ethics emptied out somewhere
accidently
along the way
pissed and puked into a stained toilet 

there was no need for morality during the 

Why are you surprised to find yourself in the line up?