"Sandy," A Poetry Post

You know how to
break a people's
spirit and
bring out their
basal instincts.

It is not enough for
us to be poor and
cold and
hungry.

We must also be
dark and wet and
inconvenienced.

It is not enough for us to be
robbed and
killed and
unemployed.

We must also be
homeless and
hopeless and
confounded.

It is not enough for us to be
mocked and
restrained and
squeezed into this
broad scale ghetto.

We must also be competitive and
enraged and
corralled.

Sandy,
we had it bad
before you
got here.

How dare you
show up
without
invitation?

-T. D. James-Moss