RAGS AND TAGS

© 1995 Michael Edwards

Rags
In reds
And blues
Wrapped around young heads
Constricting the mind
Rags
Veiling faces
Made old before their time
By greed
Apathy
Violence
Their riches grow as they peddle
The poison pebble
They have the supplies
To feed
The most urgent highs
But
tell me...
Who buys?
Show me
the hopeless junkie
that I may
Pour champagne dreams
In his crack'd skull
That I may fill it
With stories of a proud past
And visions of a brighter future

I'd hate
To see him
Tagged
His lifelss body bagged
In a sheath of plastic
The newest recruit
In an army of statistics
On permanent standby

How I wish
These few lines
Could change
This ragtag world

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