pEP tALK

as sudden news of disillusion
gag your natural response
you're dragged from save home turf
to quicksand in rotten soil!

don't expect your life,
homogenized,
into its most digestible form...

as an apoplexy of frozen fear
corrupts your precious face
you're regarding death as a happy transfer
to a better place... than this!

don't expect your life,
homogenized,
into its most digestible form...

life is cruel!
and so it shall be!

how long can you savely be
exposed to your own bigotry?!
incompetence
disincarnated?!
disregard debility,
defy euphemistic idiocy?!

live is cruel!
and so it shall be!

an sudden news of desillusion
gag your natural response
you're dragged from save home turf
to quicksand in rotten soil!

don't expect your life,
homogenized,
into its most digestible form...

by Sanjai Shah, Oktober '93