Our Tiny Bureaucratic Lives

our tiny bureaucratic lives

addicts and scholars
devout readers, philosophers
political leaders and
stoned undergraduates

processing meaninglessness
making it their business
going deep in cabinets
just to understand it

lovers and soldiers
bankers and lawyers
homeless, slumlords
non-profit financial officers

shooting smack drinking vodka
talking early morning hours
to pin the tail on the business
so you don’t have to

how we wish we could just go about it
without the fuss of it

to keep things all automatic
like driving back home

that god would show his hand
and we could all be done with it

and the painters and sculptors
institutionalized mothers

zen masters and muggers
could just take a break from it

processing the meaninglessness
factoring the meaninglessness
it keeps a planet spinning
just by us guessing