Nothing Special

On the bus
the fat girl
reads her romance
a starving child
looking at pictures of food
she licks her fingertip
and turns another page

At home the man watches TV
and thinks about writing a book
in a year he will think of it again
as the screen flickers
as he watches TV

In the club
Underage girls dressed to the nines
promenade about
trying not to look like
they are trying to be conspicuous
flowers hunting for bees
bees sting

A man afraid of life
Becomes a buddhist
When he was christian
he was Mark or maybe John
Now he calls himself Tenzing
And tells himself that
something has changed

A woman drags herself
to her job every day
and drags herself home
she daydreams of something better
then drags herself to her job everyday
and drags herself home

The young boys hang about
Self-consciously dressed in their version of cool
in ten years they will laugh
embarrassed at how they dressed
as others laugh at them now
as cool changes

The aging executive
who hides his bit on the side
pontificates about the latest economic news
he thinks he is right, he is always wrong
he always thinks he's right
and others pay because he is wrong

Looking each morning
At the sideshow mirror on the wall
they hide from themselves
The distortion,
that everything is fine

The true mirror tells that
everyone is no-one
and everything is nothing

And the world crumbles to dust