just ornaments

by Knip

Posted to Action Poetry on 2003-03-10 00:30:00

Parent message is 400498
shitty streets, dust and decay
are ornaments
i’ve seen hungry children
squatting in squalour
as the urine runs down the open sewers
that frame their carboard box living rooms
but enjoy life more fully than suburb man

what you do, where you do it
are less important than how and why you do it
recognition is the first step to freedom
ornaments do not breathe or live
but we do


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