Josiah Vermont

We Live in Cemeteries
-Josiah Vermont


Woke up this morning still tired
placed the waste out on the curb
Three gravel trucks were suburb bound,
saw no roving animal herds
Big business is bleeding the common man’s pockets
waging a war on all that grows
Where farms and food once grew abundantly
Steel condos stand neatly in rows

These tragedies labeled cities are nothing more than
glorified inflated anthills
They are concrete asphalt stucco cemeteries
waiting to be filled
The big box education centres-
academies, colleges, universities
Brainwash, stream, and control the masses
spitting out processed worker bees

But when the grocery store shuts down tomorrow
what are you going to eat?
When the jobs are gone or taken and the mortgage is due
how will you feed your family?
If the gas prices leap northward out of our grasp
and you have no functioning technology,
Will you be proud of this metropolis we built
or lament
”we live in cemeteries”?