The Milwaukee Bronzeville Poet Series

They say Milwaukee is full of gangsters

 

They say Milwaukee is full of gangsters, but I don’t see them, I see young guns who had no one to teach them, you see where the government is trying to lead them, it fills their wallets so they can sun in Venice for the weekend, you’re not feeling this?

 

You’re weakness, a problem called greed and sneakiness, I am the American dream in the flesh, these fuckers are lying with lobster on they’re breath and Egyptian cotton on their chests, with watches with conflict diamonds, stocks in companies that won’t divest,

 

I’m trying to express the idea that this is all fucked up, yes! And up I’m fed...

 

 

                                              © 2014 Mikal Pruitt