Middlemen march

We are unified

by suffering

and separated

from those we make suffer

and widening this gap

with status and money and me

who looks for status and money and me

in things other than status and money

is humanity’s progress

up to date

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I am always

in the middle

where the endings are nowhere

and the beginnings are somewhere too far

like a desert on both ends

and I am the camel’s back

struggling in between

with my

face lazy

teeth everywhere

and

hump drained of water

but still erect

for it knows no better

than to be there

where nothing is

except the sands of

beginnings and endings

and middles always