I'm Not Afraid of The Dark
#77
FINAL ENTREES of POETRY
FROM THE BUFFET OF SICKNESS
SERIES # 1
...............................
"N o t h i n g"c
* for Sharon Stone
Tonight, /....
We Believe Nothing./...
Goodnight.
30, July1997/
We Believe
In The Saving Power of Jesus/..
We Believe Nothing/..
We Believe Love
can Save Us from Ourselves/..
We Believe Nothing/...
We Believe It's Time/We Believe in Time/We Believe It's Time We
Took Better/We Believe This Time, We can Take Better/ We Believe
in Taking, and Loss Through it/...
We Believe Nothing/....
We Believe
We are Flesh and Bone
Honest to Goodness
Hard Working Americans,
Who Deserve a Chance At Prosperity
All-Expense-Paid/We Believe We can Have All of This for Nothing/
We Believe We can Steal This/We Believe We should take All This On
for Nothing/
We Believe We Should be Longsuffering, Accepting
All Pain for Nothing/
We Believe
We are
in Hell..../
and that Our Punishment, Suffering and Sacrifices are not Nothing
(...................but Somehow
this
leaves Us
feeling
Unsatisfied...............................)
We Believe We Are Abused
Here In Self-Created Purgatories of Personal Torment/
And Worn
And Sick
And Tired
We Believe We
will Sleep Better
Washington Heights, NYC............Final Entrees of Poetry from the Buffet of Sickness, Series#1Nothing copyright 2005 F i n n e g a n ! *