Reality Bites, A Poem by Bob Abate
REALITY BITES: although a new film in ‘94
Descriptive of life as ever before and forever more
Bright lights, big city sights, inner-city blight
Violent nights, endless fights … Reality Bites!
Competition, confrontation, civil-rights, gay-rights and slights
Discrimination, Integration, blacks versus whites
Christians, Muslims, Hindus and Jews
All claim/ing to be God’s Chosen Few
And also/therefore the right to never unite
Demagogues all! – except for “my type.”
A “New World Order” … or Global Disorder?
The Third World in turmoil with fighting and flight
Heard in neat little sound bites night after night
Bosnia, Somalia, Korea, Rwanda, Cuba and Haiti too … Afghanistan, Iraq,
Iran, Korea, Egypt and Syria too
Does anyone in Wangton have the slightest clue?
What each of us need/s to do
Is LISTEN to other points of view
Because whether we really like it or not
Mother Earth’s/is the only planet we’ve got!
We’re in it all together
Now, In addition to all the above and everything else
We’ve got to deal with “Exhibit A” – THE WEATHER !!
