: REAL PEOPLE :

real people
care about cereal
and thermostats,
and day jobs,
and weather reports

real people
care about meningitis

birth control,
eye glasses,
and laundry day

real people
care about 3'oclock

real people
worry about insurance,

spaghetti prices,
traffic jams,
and foot pain

real people
have 2 arms

real people
don't have
drinking problems

real people
eat at home

-every night-

real people
wear colorful
clothing

real people
can't care
about us

real people
watch tv

real people
worship coffee
mornings

real people
check their
tire pressure

real people
go to church

real people
starch their
shirts

real people
commute

real people
swim the surface

real people
have casual jeans
and comfortable shoes

real people
don't think
about Pulitzer Prizes

or Africa
or the homeless
or corporate pollution
or rape
or child murder
or poetry books
or aboriginal rights
or freedom
or equality
or revolution
or hunger
or mayhem
or insanity
or sadness
or rage
or nothing left to lose
or seeking change
or Egyptian magic
or sinful passion

or delicate flowers swaying in trance
or pagan spirits drunk with dance
or wild eyed poets summoning unknown gods in the breathy wilderness of chants

real people
don't think
like me

"real people"
know NOTHING about me

and how
beautiful
that has come to be
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