Oh my heart what unnecessary evil Let’s set fire to the dragon’s hoard and Live among the people Before I light the matches And you pour the ethyl In case we both die Meet me once by the steeple Cold white in the face But still hot beneath embers Fresh tracks run in circles With us at the center When the circle it closed sending us to the Mentor Outstretched were it’s wings When it asked that we enter We could have had art and community, agriculture and science. Instead, we live for rent, and the profit of those decided to be more fortunate than us. A decision made not nature, but by the man much affected by the fact of others’ lives being lived unlike his own. Why all? |