who are these strangers
clad in the uniform
of consumerism
conformation into the church
of the holy dollar
fables about legendary bread winners
but they never say
if they were happy
if they died alone
like everybody else
they think it makes them immortal
but they make it immortal
the strange belief
that we can assign
numerical values to life
I wonder how
they can be my brothers
and my sisters
when we are so different
but people are people
always have been
and always will be