Magpie Tales 93: Occupy Perspective

Photo provided by Tess Kincaid

Occupy Ruby Slippers: 

There's No Place Like Home 

Maybe now I can get some peace and quiet. 

Cops finally ran those assholes outta my home. 

Idiots had no dignity, pissin and crappin all over,

smellin up the neighborhood and I couldn't get no 

fuckin sleep.  Don't know and frankly don't give 

a shit what their bitchin was all about.  I just want 

some goddamn respect.  And quiet.  Jesus freakin 

Christ, at least the rich bastards they're pissed at 

will toss me a buck or two once in a while, but 

these little shits - nooo -  they just sat on my sofa 

for weeks and fingered those blackberry 

somethingorothers and wouldn't leave me the hell alone. 

Mad cause they gotta pay for school or some such 

crap.  Yep, everybody's got somethin to bitch about. 

Some assholes have an axe to grind and some have 

their crosses to bear.  I just wanna have a drink and 

lay down for a while.  Finally.  Shit, finally I can 

stretch out on the sofa and have some peace and 

quiet. 

               ©Dumitru Burlacu, Child of the streets, Bucharest, Romania, 2003

                                © Barry Lewis/In Pictures/Corbis

©2011 R. Burnett Baker