we exist in a black & white world

where they burn your flag & your pride

if you stray outside the confining outlines

 

loose cannon jazz leads to blue looks

for swimming upstream to birth cool

in a pace which rips through rule books

 

black sheep are shot for grazing at night

in a fight against driftwood wearing hoods

instead of uniform peaks, woven in lilywhite

 

snowflakes aim to form a synchronized shape

& euthanize, medicate & lobotomize

Houdini’s who break or partake in a chain escape

 

led by lego brick leaders

stacked thick in piles of dimes a dozen

fed stacks to build a kingdom for the one

 

throw your TV’s through the window of possibilities

& step outside the jars of clay

spinning in the hands of potters plotting a payday by foul-play

 

follow brave men down the road not taken

where the grass is greener & the air is cleaner

for the paved path ends at a kool-aid drinking fountain