the most vulnerable

I dream about them

how they suck on pennies

hold yard sales

bake cookies

for the churches

who the fuck

do they think

they are?

while the rich suffer

all this abuse

these selfish bastards

whimper about jobs

and health care

and their goddamn

entitlements

taxing the life

out of us all

I want what’s

in their boxes

under their beds

give it to the rich

say ‘here, I found

them out, I got them’

the rich will love me

elect me to office

where I can make rules

where I won’t have

these dreams and these

headaches and where

no one can find me

where I won’t

have to talk

I’ve been seeing things

panhandlers with guns

people on crutches

made of plastique

poor kids with tasers

old women knitting

body armor

it makes me crazy

I’ve got to do

something

got to get them

before they get me

the most vulnerable

the sonsabitches

they want to eat me

I can see it

in their eyes

hear their voices

out there waiting

with their fucking

dirty hands out

and nobody to stop them

except me…what?

my time is up?

sorry

thank you

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt