FUCK THESE NUMBERS
Wholesale and retail
import worship of detail,
where success taxes things
that aren’t real
Corporations aren’t people
and don’t care who you are,
they’ll pitch you as hard
as profits require
Cataloged investments
bleed on a sheet,
where brackets gas idols
hijacked by the elite
Prisons house circuits
that never let go,
where fees from offenders
finance the show
Hospitals serve us
as their marks,
stacking paper
of costs in the dark
Education saddles students
with long debt,
endowing courses
careers must offset
Brittle systems
veer without say,
skewed as we’re screwed
every minute of each day
Surveys determine
angles for a cause,
employing correlation,
for prejudice laws
While deficits and curves
appraise worth,
none of it matters
in a carriage or hearse
Aging and reflex
swap purpose for pain,
fuck these numbers
and the constraints they contain
What helps us shine
has no value to grasp;
love, passion,
respect and class
Take your metrics,
that blueprints erect,
for a hundred monuments
the conservative perfect
Live for your circle
and not by equations,
cherish what’s around you-
the undefined and amazing