LAMENT

LAMENT

Trouble

and I can’t drag

two-hundred bucks

outta my bank account

            What bank account

and I can’t drag

a hundred bucks

outta the old man’s bank account

            What bank account

and I can’t drag

fifty bucks outta my

best friend’s bank account

            What best friend

Trouble

is not my middle name

            my middle name is

                        busted

            and my last name is

                        broke

and my first name is

                        flat

Flat god-damn Busted Broke

And ain’t life just grand

in Donald Trump’s America

            which is always

                        America anyway

24/7

all the time

doesn’t matter

who’s squatting

in the White House

            Ain’t my house

It is 
            my America

            every 50 states of it

                        and territories

like Samoa

                        and I resent

                        that with all this real-estate

I can’t drag

two-hundred bucks

outta my non-existent

bank account.

RW

Seattle

04.08.2019

(While listening to Trouble so Hard by Amythyst Kiah and Her Chest of Glass on kbcs.fm)