331.365 - we

are a broken people
we break ourselves
we are stupid
and proud of it
we boast of it
and we vote to prove it
but at least we
are not brown or black
we
vote against ourselves
vote for our owners
thinking
when we do
that when they are
comfortable enough
they will pass down
their spare pillows
and of course
we
will get one
probably with a silken case
we can take with us
in a cheap box
although if this world
is any promise of the next
there we will still clean toilets
for our masters
tell them thank you
and step out of their way
remembering to be grateful
to the maker of us all
who engineered a world like this
for its beauty
and was kind enough at least
not to make us brown or black