When you're down and under and crushed and shattered
smashed and trodden and beaten, bamboozled, kicked and
destroyed    lost out, gone mad, fell back, shot up,
done in, wiped out     When your heart is broken    and
your nose is running, your days are numbered, your lot
is cast, you're wasted, worried, choked up and ruined
left out, disinherited, sweating, frustrated, alone and
demolished, hopeless, despairing, depressed and insane
you're lousy    you know it    you wish you could change
Your coat's ripped, your nose is crooked, your brain is
mush, your hands are cursed, your life is worthless
and you're uncomfortable    a hunchback, a sucker,
a recluse, a frog     When you know you can't make it
You're hideous, helpless, pusillanimous, squirrelly and
dumb
Maureen Owen