That should be obvious <br />Of course it won't <br />Any fool knows that. <br />Even in the winter. <br />Consider for a moment. <br />What? <br />Consider what! <br />They never have. <br />Why now? <br />Certainly it means nothing. <br />It's all a lie. <br />What else could it be? <br />That's right. <br />Sure. <br />Any way you look at it. <br />A silk hat. <br />A fat belly. <br />A nice church to squat in. <br />My holy ass... <br />What should they care about? <br />It's quaint. <br />Twelve kids on the fire escape... <br />Flowers on the windowsill... <br />You're damn right. <br />That's the way it is. <br />That's just the way it is.<br /><br />Kenneth Patchen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-slums/
