BUM

By Tom Miller

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get a job

they all shout

 

you're a poet bum

or bum poet

sometimes just a bum

 

and i wave

hello

to you

and your fancy car

 

you're going to die

 

hello

 

sophisticated lady

at the 20 $-a-steak restaurant

 

an hour for your hair

an hour on your face

an hour to make yourself smell

 

like all the fancy products

tested on defenseless bunnies

now blind deaf scarred and

mutilated

 

lady

you're going to die

 

hello

 

burger boy

 

judge me

will you?

 

i may only have pocket change

but that's enough

 

to make your ass

get my fries and tell me

to have a nice day

 

though you hate my guts

because you decided to chop meat

for a living

 

decided that was what you were worth

 

boy

you're going to die

 

hello

 

you rich bush-league bastard

in your doc martin shoes

and your shiny sports car

with phone

bar

television set

 

He

who builds buildings

on top of the poor

 

who can't afford rent

to live in your

gold plated plastic sewers

 

you health club

you racquetball

you money clip

 

with your bank loans

car loans

house loans

 

you are so much

poorer than me

 

so much more

deprived than me

 

yes

 

you got more stuff for the moment

but you know what?

 

busy man

bad man

building man

butt-and-everything-in-the-world-stuck-up-in-it-man

 

you're going to die

 

hello

rude lady at the denny's

hello there

hello

 

does this meat loaf have m.s.g.?

i can't eat m.s.g.

 

do you fry in vegetable oil

or animal fat?

 

if it's animal fat

i'll get hives

i'll sue!

 

bring a glass of water

for my poodle

fluffy

 

unless it's tap water

 

fluffy

only drinks spring water

from canada

 

i hope you take american express

platinum

because if you don't

i'll take my business elsewhere

 

over to the i-hop

or the waffle house

or the perkin's

 

and leave THEM my 25 cent tip!

 

lady

i can't afford 25 cents

for a phone call to tell you

 

to stick that poodle

up your dried out twat

 

but that's okay because

you're going to die

 

and to all the boyfriends

and all the girlfriends in the world

who can't stand each other

but stay together anyway

because they're too ignorant

and frightened to change

 

if you don't like what you've got

 

GET OUT!

NOW!

 

FIND ANOTHER HOLE!

 

SAVE YOURSELVES FROM YOURSELVES!

 

TIME IS PASSING YOU BY!

 

MAKE THE MOST OF IT!

 

because...

 

YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!

 

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