DESCRIPTION:
/ starved in metropolis
/ hooked on necropolis
/ addict of metropolis
/ do the worm on acropolis
/ slam dance cosmopolis
/ enlighten the populace

hungry darkness of living
who will thirst in the pit?
/ hooked in metropolis
she spent a lifetime deciding
how to run from it
/ addicts of metropolis
once fate had a witness
and the years seemed like friends
/ girlfriends
Now a doubt has a dream
but it begins like it ends
/ shot into eternity
/ methadone kitty
/ iron serenity

ghetto defendant
it is heroin pity
not tear gas nor baton charge
that stops you taking the city

/ strung out committee
walled out of the city
clubbed down from uptown
sprayed pest from the nest
run out to barrio town
/the guards are itchy
forced to watch at the feast
then sweep up the night
flipped pieces of coin
/ broken bottles
exchanged for birthright
/ grafted in a jiffy

/ strung out committee
/ sitting pretty
/ graphed in a jiffy
/ no pity, pretty

the ghetto prince of gutter poets
was bounced out of the room
/ jean arthur rimbaud
by the bodyguards of greed
for disturbing the tomb
/ 1873
his words like flamethrowers
/ paris commune
burnt the ghettos in their chests
his face painted whiter
and he was laid to rest
/ died in marseille
/ buried in charleville
/ shot up for eternity
/Guatemala, Honduras, Poland...100 years war
/TV re-run invasion, death squad, Salvador
/Afghanistan, meditation, old Chinese flu
/kick junk what else can a poor worker do