Make a list a old fool and bold what’s important

The spit now drips from your chin,

On to the fine china stained porcelain and you laugh:

• Laugh in vice

• In crises

• In pain

Old fool,

They sit now in chairs made of clear water tears and tinder,

But you already know that they plot your death as they mask their failing systems:

• Of health

• Of sickness

• Of riches

• Of poverty

Laugh at them with a list,

Look on with wonderment in those young eyes or clear crystal and make us laugh again,

Say you will die another day as you tillage the soil and dare that crusted earth to swallow you:

• Stand

• Breathe

• Move

• Fight

• Make them laugh again

• Feel the papers of your grandson’s words against your fingers

• Smell the autumn air of your nephew’s oaken trees atop the hills of crap

• Scream against the ineffective white as you reject the smell of cyanide spilled healthcare halls

Old fool,

• Race an old race fool

• Fool serve the old again

• Race old time and fool it

• Fool them young and old

• You will not die old yet fool

• Fight old fool

• Fight

© 2014 Jared "I.J" Steinberg. All Rights Reserved.

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