This is Success

[e_dog]

You wanted to start/
join the revolution.
There was none.
So you opted for the next
best thing:
college. Radical sublimation
in thought.

You wanted to help the poor
but there was no money in it.
So you opted for the next
best thing:
med-school/corporate-job/
drug-trafficking/investment banking.
Radical de-sublimation in action.

You wanted to kill your boss.
You did/n't.
So you received the next
horrible thing:
death row/psychiatric ward.
Awaiting appeals. And revolution.

Civics lesson.
This is Success.

[joel]

and then there are the seminarians
who listen to G B Shaw
"every genuinely religious person is a heretic,
and therefore a revolutionist"
and follow a call
of revolution
into theological institutions
hosting balls amidst world wars;
where they ask as many angels as possible
to dance on the head of a pin—
and you wonder,
what is it like when you want to kill your boss
and you follow through on desire?

[mnaz]

Oh we all have our moments,
but everyone's a sellout;
it's just a matter of degree.

Killing the boss is overrated anyway.