Ross Vassilev- A Poem

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I hate people

and I don't shower too often

and I hate people

and I'm always giving the finger

to the neighbors upstairs

                when I see them

and sometimes I bang on the ceiling with a broom handle

and 9/11 was the day

that supposedly changed everything

but America is still bombing and invading

other countries

so really it changed nothing

and everybody knows

that everything that goes around comes around

and Lou Reed is dead, dammit

and people still go to work

every morning

driving or

riding the bus or Amtrak

and inflation is a terrible thing

for those (like me) who refuse to let themselves

be slowly killed off

by the meatgrinder of work

and I'm waiting for some military clown

to tell me to my face

that he's fighting for my freedom

but somehow they never have the guts

I think in a previous life

I was Iggy Pop

or maybe Jack the Ripper

or at least I like to think so.