Supporting Caste

Supporting Caste

When the credits finally roll for this, the worst story ever told,
don’t bother sifting through the names for yours or anyone you know.
Unless they were by chance a shepherd king, a virgin birth,
a resurrection, a messianic prince or some such childish thing.
You can storm the edit suite or move to block its theatrical release,
but I think we can safely guarantee
that there will be no revisions
to the script made on behalf of a supporting cast(e).

Because history exalts only the pornography of force–that of murderers
and psychopaths (the rest of us, of course,
stricken from the narrative wholesale: a back drop to the tale)
as we, the two-bits, are ushered on and swiftly off
this stage with the jawbones of asses.
No stirring curtain call for the masses.
No floral bouquet.
No breaking of legs.
No recurring role.
No artistic control.

And so in these days, in this terminal phase,
it’s all left to chance.
A piece of advice: if you’re cast on thin ice,
you may as well dance.
Do what you feel you must,
but as for me I was not put upon this earth to subjugate or serve.