Status Quo
Status quo
Where the rich get richer and…
You’ve heard that before?
Well yes,
The rich get richer, but also
Poor colored communities
Continue to get worse
And worse and worse
What does worse really mean?
Well,
Do you think they are happy?
With crime and poverty
Creating a dangerous environment in which
To raise children
Children that will carry on their
Legacy
Their stories
Their history
Their traditions
Straight to the early grave
When all many of them want is
A bit more of the happiness
Promised to them by the commercials
From the companies
Headed by the rich
That get richer
By “utilizing” good little consumers
And hoping they don’t stop
Their endless consumption
Of the goods
That keep rising and rising and
Rising in price
Where will it end?
Well for many colored people,
It seems to end in violence,
In gunshots
In jail
As the cycle continues
And the status quo
Marches on into the
Future that no one figured
Would be this way,
Well, no one except those rich
Who get richer
From the rest of us,
But for what do we really care?
--Matt Crichton
3/21/21