Pull back the skin
and you will bleed.
You will see
the workings
of our mutilated society,

misappropriated language
misled masses
misused policies
used to perpetuate
a war on
what they named the welfare state.

One hundred poor people
put on trial and incarcerated
while hardly one wall street embezzler,
wealthy drug money launderer,
or private war contractor
does any time at all.