Buckling into the multiple
Blue arms of the guards
Unhappy father grimace
Through a real estate mustache
A millipede climbing the side
Of a construction site shack
Apartment towers reflected
In a moonlit puddle
And the moment of the first lie
"I didn't take the fiver!"
Shouted across the kitchen
Toward mom by the blender
Suddenly there were two worlds
This one & the one he made up
And if they didn't believe him
It didn't matter
He would believe it
Or pretend to
And this would cause some of them
To change their minds
"To stop wildfires
Vacuum the forests"
Do they really believe
This shit
"The source of your pain
Is the workers toiling
In sun seized fields
And boiling kitchens"
The world is what I say it is
He thought
It's the grand gestures I do
He thought
Accordion move arms
In a boxy blue suit
Red tie like the tongue
Of a panting dog
A maudlin fist pumped to the air
In the Pennsylvania twilight
