government- run
our world is vast,
passports expire
what did you think?
you could smuggle a ham in here?

eat it!
eat it all!
or surrender it to the government
it can rot over here
in this confiscated pile
along with non-sensical whims

we take and take
because we can-
this is the finest democracy
on earth-

now, give us your firstborn
and go home to cry.


                                                                 
nov. 2002