Richard Schnap- A Poem

PASSENGER

I ride in the back of a bus
With no beginning and no end

Watching robots in designer suits
Cruise past in camouflaged limos

As rows of cardboard boxes
Crowd sidewalks with “For Rent” signs

Under giant animated billboards
Advertising homes on Mars

And just when I think I’m dreaming
I hear a mechanical voice

Announcing the show around me
Is one that has only begun