why

woke this morning with a spade in my heart

Watching people lying dying in the streets

Roads blue and lights electric yellow at the KFC

Burgers everywhere straw on the floor

 

My mother looking in the mirror saw nothing inside

Fear taking people in the overcrowded graveyard

Far away a bunch of sirens yelling to the deep air

A man stabbed in the back litter covering the path

 

Bullets flying around me unknowing where they ricochet

The walls of crumbling houses made of blood red stones

Beetles crawling on ceilings crocodiles swimming in gutters

I wonder why the burglars don’t respond to my questions

 

Tired and gruesome faces and I don’t know why

Empty eyes and pockets with no money to spend

Surprised I am still alive surprised I’m kissing you

And everywhere the mud speaking of this crazy world