Childhood Plus
Slapped on the ass
Wrenched out with plastic gloves
Spotlight blinds the primary vision
Horrid formula milk
And the accursed Pablum
Shitting all over the place
The Big Ones pat our heads
So cute
But so obnoxious and get rid of them quicks
Thrust into the gulag of kindergarten barricades
Angry ones
Yell at us
Discipline us
Morals
Response to the command
Tolerated and patronized
Riot after the first joint
The women you have been taught to hate
Frustration equals the ten o’clock rape
Radical
Or suburban
To the factories of imaginary consumption
Politely work for the son of a jerk
The son in law
Punks or respectable
45-year-old jacketed (from high school)
Losers crowd the Montreal Forum
And beer swillers at Lafontaine
If not perhaps to the college
For paper tiger degrees
Suited to the paper maché world
Elitism of the unemployed
Beer bellied
Joints in the alley
The paranoia of survival
Choking onset of the crematorium
Companions fall in the wayside
Life vanishes
To be bashed in the ass once again
The cry
Incessant
Robert K. Stephen
