Losers in the land of the free

a poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

In side streets, where the flow
of traffic is a whisper, they sit
pretending that they have left
the rat race, jumped the ship of
life, yet they fight over a bottle
of wine, like true capitalists and
share their cardboard box with
no one. plan, rob and steal like
board room members and betray
their best friend for a dram.