Tim Mills
we took it
on the chin before
boxing on a catawampus
class-divided floor
over-crowded
with hired hammers
heat-treated
high n tight
again this friday night
we’ll fight
to even up the score
in them tainted halls
of justice
armor-plated ‘roids
who bust us
unfortunately
lucky we lose
though we survive
cuz we’re unwanted dead
or young n restless
dazed in our lives
that we wired up withstand
social callisthenic strain
as francois lalanne
of late
does jumpin’ jacks
inside the brain
we’re steady as we roll
steady as we roll
to divvy up our treasure
that mista big stuff stole
we’re steady as we roll
tattooed corn-rowed
dungaree’d
share the load
dereg’late gladiators
welcome home agitators
revved up
not for sale
conscientious
outta jail
but crawfish’d
hoe-handled
risin’ up for blessed truth
shouted down ridiculed
for bein’ nasty n uncouth
our youth been preach’d
‘tis better to give it up
in trade for saccharin lies
a genteel way of sayin’
you can all eat shit n die
right at home home
but deranged where deer
n antelope play
with cattle barons’ mange
forever problematical
wanna reborn rodeo
with latifundia to lasso
while deep fried-in-the wool radicals
on select fire sabbaticals
‘breviate foolish gold in banks
‘sphyxiate oligarchal think tanks
when dot com money dies
we’re battery-wise
n still ever-ready
rockin’ steady as we roll
to divvy up our treasure
that mista big stuff stole
steady as we roll
steady as we roll
steady steady as we roll
steady [2014]
Tim Mills