Sleep Long

One day I saw a man asleep

In a doorway on the street

Thru walls of sheltered

Inhibition I perceived his

Condition dying of hunger

And exposure, food and shelter

Two blocks over within

This place we breed and

Dwell in we've created living hell

Sleep long sleep well

Only to awake in hell

City sleeps and pigeons flutter

Vagrant dies in the gutter

Prideless death somehow befitting

To life spent working on forgetting

Riding on the bus I looked outside and thought about death

Passing cars the only tribute to his gasping final breath

Sleep long sleep well

Only to awake in hell

(Constant subliminal brain immersion

Subconscious death wish coercion

Buy and consume and want and need

Never fall from the trap of greed)

I thought about the bitter pain of jail cells

And falling rain I thought ahead and looked away

What can you do anyway in sheltered youth and our

Pretension

Avert our eyes to divert attention

Only to see the himan victims always there to remind us

Sleep long sleep well

Only to awake in hell