Complacent about our pallor with weighed shoulders Transparent about our complaints of penury, livid about promised lands Arid vicissitudes pilfering bandits casting and ostracized folk-rock Pallid coffers in the kiosk hanging out in teddy bear streets mourning the death of drugs Stentorian blogging along with the fustilug with crushing self-doubt in the war on welcoming namesake Transparently opaque about my doubts in my angry fix putting me to repose, bit by bit War is peace