Criminals Mean Fleecing Broken-Hearted Lives Poem by Terence George Craddock

hope
you do not
have to
interact
with the few
who misuse
gutter power
put down

the poor
like leg broken
race horses
criminals
feeding upon
mean fleecing
down out broken
-hearted lives

protection
rackets
milking
own minority
ethnicity
dirty
thumbs hands
in every

baked pie
stealing
living
an eye
for an eye
enforcing
seized
city blocks

gangster mobs
red neck towns
division bells
misfortune wells
rats run in packs
fear divide victims
sliver silence
lone heroes

people poverty
hardship returning
to animal survival
working tilled tailings
sweating harsh odds
coin toss opportunities
sniffs out worked out acres
impossible escape routes

dead ends
blind mazes
chance errors
dead endings
salvation watches
starvation rags
death throes
in blind indifference


Copyright © Terence George Craddock