The drug Machine keeps ticking
Steady
With the rhythm of the earth
Drumming like the moon
Circling like the sun
Kingpins rise
Teenagers experiment
Old addicts overdose
Lungs
Noses
Veins
Everyday
All the time
Indio
Cholo
Eddy
El guero
All share the planet
They too
Are addicted
To survival
Guns, money
Money, guns
Take another hit
Snort another line
Shoot another fix
Hit the line
That fixes the problem
A poet says,
“Nothing is more powerful
Than an idea whose time had come”
A musician says,
“Peace will be the last word
Ever heard
Where is Superman
Or Jesus Christ?”
Tick
Tick
Tick
The drug Machine keeps ticking
Everyday
All the time.
Bluetown Trevino
