“Contingent Except the Mental Punishment” - Chad McKinney

Four thirty Seven’s Consequence Is Relevant in its Decadence
To this former Atheist
Sittin Pissed
in this
Monotonous Existence
Of an Office space
DisGraced
Feeling like Human Waste
Of potential
Now all of a sudden
I’m dispensable, Inconsequential?
F* loyalty
Conformity’s Boring you see We need Creativity
Now I’m Bleeding Green from the Greed
While this Corporate Leash
Shankles an strangles My Ankle
It’s Strain’n twistin my knee Now
I’ll Cry Foul Aloud While I’m a Slaughter House cow
Stabbed In the head Wow Ow How
When profits Plummet
Can I not go Wonderin
When the kids are Eatin
Out the Garden of Eden
Much less Greetin
A Full stomache
Timmy’s Hungry
Susie’s Bulimic
just to feed the Rest of us
Sh*t no Bluff
this Government’s f*d Up
It’s A Melvin from
Uncle Sam’s Son
Ruckis
But We’re the Punk kids
Puttin up with this
Now there’s Bloody finger Prints on my common sense

It’s a deficit with
my membership In
civilization
Someone Explain again
The Horatio Alger myth
Doesn’t it go something like this When
Equalities a common theme
Humanities free to be
a Society
Free from Greed
Not bent on feeding off People’s needs
Prosperity’s a reality
in this Thing We deem as Livin
My Confidence is driven
From ambition
and the Right family conditions
Like Vince
Given the kids a position with a situation I see Fit
It’s called Parental Endorsements of Hardship
Not an ignorant Decadent Assumption at Tantamount
Your Brains clouded like Salmon Swimmin up stream
Demeaned Daily
this Ain’t the place to be Straining
Sweatshop Labor wages
Cagin Jane’s Addiction
To physical Health
Mental Stress perpetuates these Chemical Imbalances
Challenges to survivin
Now I’m Strivin to stay alive again
Without the rights of a Natural born citizen
I’m talking about a Livin wage
Universal Health care
But I Decent ‘n Despair
When Congress says
“Who f*ing cares”
I see
Broken ness
Working poor
Hopeless Homeless
Scared Sharin an wearin Weary dreary Tears
Now I’m Ragged like Lincoln’s Beard
Drowning Fears in Beers
Hopin to make it through Til next year
Alcoholism Begins Where?