Here Today, Forgotten Tomorrow by Rob Meyer

On an elegant Oil Ranch outside of Houston, a Socialite
kisses his boy goodnight.
In a Central Park West Brownstone, a Butler
throws out an Oriental throw rug that is
quickly snatched up and used as a blanket
by a Homeless man.
As an Aristocrat lights his pipe a man in Freeport
lights his crack pipe.

16 % of the population struggles with
depression
as the Pearl Necklaced Princess cuts her
beef wellington.

On the elegant Oil Ranch in Texas, the rigid, strict,
self-absorbed Socialite alcoholic wipes the saliva from his
rebellious, unloved, oppositional defiance disorder
ridden Son of a Bitch,
In the Suburbs a middleclass business man snorts
a line of coke off his Wife’s best China,
In the Suburbs?
In these Suburbs a 14-year old girl goes for a back alley
abortion,
In Africa a child dies of AIDS
as a child at New York University Medical Center inherits
his Mother’s antibodies.

A brand new $300 dollar jean jacket’s pocket hides the keys to a stolen
car worn by the daughter of a Harvard Professor,
In a sun drenched Suburban backyard
a teenager makes a bomb while studying
his copy of the Anarchist Cookbook
as children in Baltimore learn to play chess.

Lack of education and funding kills some children
while the Wealthiest Lords’ children kill
themselves with Grandpa’s shotgun.
Funeral tanks carry caskets in Texas, New York City, Africa,
and Baltimore
that contain the bodies of Humans
connected by the rusted chains of
our Society.

Government bribes and secretive Senators
pay off drug companies to hide STD’s
as the Homosexual community drops like flies,
The “unimportant” poor stories make the Papers as
the Rich people’s tradgedies are covered
up and buried under kidney shaped
pool concrete.

As TV’s blare and infect the World with
LIES
Billboards on Buses and Messages
on Radios feed the minds
of the weak and strong alike.

“You’re either a part of the problem or a part of the
solution,”
the Teacher says as he o.d.’s on his morning cup of coffee
and prescription pain killers.