Humanity and the city

If serial acts of cruelty
against your
fellow man

Is what inspires you

If this… brings
you joy?

Rather than acts
marinated in the spirit
of selflessness

what…
pray tell
does that
say about
you?

No milk of human kindness, just dryness.

Is your soul
that
devoid of worth?

How is the art
of besmirching
dehumanizing
ad hominem
to demonstrate
that we truly
don’t give
a damn… somehow okay?

Is this
the way
to get ahead
in the city?

But I digress
to say
the land of the plenty –
while our brethen
on the streets
can’t seem to get any

oh shiggitty
it ain’t pretty
as we do dirt
amid the underpinnings
of rudeness,
bad manners
and ill grammar

we celebrate it –
the lack
of social graces…

now
I ain’t saying
no names
or alluding to
no orange faces
this is prose
simply put –

but it remains
to be seen
if the sheen of
inhumanity will prevail –
as that which
was torn asunder
built back better
reaching to
higher elevations

showing the indefatigable
inexhaustible
perservance of that
indomitable
human spirit…

be still
and hear it
don’t fear it

we can be better –
if we aspire to act
as vessels to
distribute worth
not curses.