The safest place that one can be
is
where sharks can't see me,

mind you,
there's not much to do
and you don't get much fun
unless you count
counting the pebbles
and
and
no! that's it
counting pebbles
waiting for the inevitable

the tide will come in
the sharks will grin
and we'll all be on the menu.

He
tramps off into the distance
waiting for a miracle
conversing with the Oracle
his hair is getting long.

Babylon not gone
it
comes on
in the second act.

They try to tell the truth here
give or take a year
drop another tear
it doesn't matter.

We are complicit
we can't acknowledge it
but we're guilty all the same.

tired and I'm trying to tell you
that this
will never be behind you
you will always look out on
the things that you never did,

More **** on Facebook
don't believe me
take a look.

this happened
this would
do you think
that this could?

***
fake news
but you choose
to reel it in.

I'm right
they're right
we're all right
we might be.

makes me think
there's more truth in the drink
and I will drink to that.

They're putting out the lights
doing away with Human Rights
cockin' a deaf 'un
to the sound of the gun
and
turning a blind eye
to the bombs from the sky.

Wasn't it always so
that the men with the money
sit and watch it grow,
safe in the knowledge
that power and privilege
are protecting them.

Thinking, I fell off the edge of the lantern
wondering
did I even put my pants on

waking
is getting to be
a bit of a hindrance
and too much for me.

But
I do it on a daily basis
sometimes
more than once.

It's 6am on a Saturday
Billy Joel in my ears
telling me all about the
piano man
but I've already
known him for years.

Bags under your eyes?
if they're Gucci,
it's okay

You can put those wrinkles in them.