The American Seam Poem by Perry Barnes

I forsee the american dream
but all is not as it leans
flock towards me in puddles and streams
for the opportunities of bootleg jeans
the rational writhes and screams
for the mass of fabricated dreams
people's and person's actual needs
like their souls and mouths to feed
consumerism personifies the weed
but was not born from a seed
merely created

I was born a british
and therefore do not possess the fetish
needed to acquire the english
everybody pray to the west
put the burdens onto your chest
whether you make your own path is the test

my empathy and sympathy is not enough to save you
you encourage yourself and around this they build the zoo
i've been a part of it to
the system I have broke on through
i'm not quite on the other side
I needed to develop reliable ties
on which I could rely
then the limits would be defined by the sky
and of course buy my mind

happiness is your own
find it according to your own rules
enlightenment and entitlement are not the same thing
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