monsters

every night at 4, 5, 6 and 11

we spoon feed our babies with the day's insanity

then send them to their rooms and off to dreamland

with the murder and the rape and the hate to keep them warm

and in the morning we send them off to school

so they can be raised by the underpaid, the under appreciated

on the treadmill of public education where numbers and test scores

are the only things that matter

how can we be surprised when the monsters we create

thru turning a blind eye kill one another, kill their mothers

and the madmen of the media laugh in our faces

we line up at the ticket window,

glad to spend our child support money

on another hit of fantasy to the escape the reality we help create

with our irresponsibility

is it that we don't see the value of a human life

is worth less than the

almighty dollar?

or are we too stupid, too disinterested, too terrified of our own children?

how can we be surprised when the monsters we creat

thru turning a blind eye kill one another, kill their mothers

and the madmen of the media laugh in our faces