The lippers keep lipping, <br />The strippers keep stripping, <br />Skippers keep skipping, <br />And the time keeps slipping. <br />The prayers keep praying, <br />The layers keep laying, <br />The players keep playing <br />And sanity keeps straying. <br /> <br />The honkies on Wall Street keep honking, <br />The donkeys in the University keep flunking <br />The kykes in the Hasidim keep conniving, <br />And the dykes in SoHo keep muffdiving. <br />The beggars in Manhattan keep begging, <br />The dregs in the sewer keep dregging <br />The trains in training keeps striving, <br />And the planes in JFK keep arriving. <br /> <br />The jelly doughnut still tastes the same, <br />They'll still serve spaghetti in the Café Daft, <br />The Antarctic stays as cold as it was <br />And the fires keep burn-burn-burning <br />In the mineshaft. <br /> <br />The rats keep ratting <br />And the hookers keep hooking <br />Fighters stay fighting <br />And lookers stay looking. <br />The drinkers keep drinking, <br />The thinkers keep thinking, <br />The winkers keep winking <br />And the stinkers keep stinking. <br /> <br />Somehow, no one helps me up <br />As they walk past me on the bleeding sidewalk, <br />They just pass their feet over me <br />Or just stand there needing to gawk. <br />And I wonder if I had an effect on anyone today, <br />A dying man gasping for air <br />To make them carpe their diem <br />As they try not to trip on this walkway. <br /> <br />But when you see it from my view, <br />The only thing that is keeping me alive <br />Is the thought that a wondrous death <br />Will come soon and make everything new.<br /><br />K. Jared Hosein<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/death-final-words-of-a-bleeding-man-on-the-sidew/
