Because The Audience Always Applauds* A Poem, R.M. Engelhardt

R.M. ENGELHARDT POET AUTHOR WRITER

BECAUSE THE AUDIENCE ALWAYS APPLAUDS

In 1912
Poor Franz
Jumped off
The Eiffel Tower

Smashed
To the ground
Into the hard earth

Dead

Because the
Audience always
Applauds

In 94′
Tyke
The abused
Elephant
Fought back &
Escaped

Got shot
86 times
By the police

Committed no crime
Except being alive
Died slowly

Proof
That we all live
In a WTF
Fucked up world

The dead all bloody
And crushed
Lying along our American
Highways of progress
The earth burning out

From within

Without

But nobody notices

Unless they are forced
To watch

The moment
The slaughter
The disease

But that doesn’t
Effect you nor I

Now does it?

Not in our high school
Not in our neighborhood
Not on our watch

Hey !

Mind your own business
Take off that mask
Don’t get that shot
In the arm

It’s bullshit

Thank God you’re
Not one of those
“Other” people

Who worship that
“Other” God

Nukes at the ready
Survivalists with guns
Morons running our
Governments doing
Nothing at all

Because the
Audience always
Applauds

Their own blindness
& Stupidity

Selfishness & sloth

Fake anarchy
Fake patriots
Fake truth
Fake love

The loud & the dumb
Ringing in
With a dull
Funeral march

Proof
That we all live
In a WTF
Fucked up world

Because the
Audience always
Applauds