cattle (move in herds)
[listen] cattle move in herds | new window photo credit: Brian Forbes cattle move in herds we cram into streets racing each other to every red light of our lives everyone wants to be the one standing at the top of the pile of crumbs king of all the slaves my scars are prettier than yours my clothes are a little less torn we cram onto subways fighting to be the ones to sit en masse instead of stand in the train’s car during a 15 minute commute to boredom or misery in exchange for the harvest of our able bodies and minds oh, the honor of being paid the most to be able to boast that all day you can coast and trip on the internet or place a house sized casino site bet cattle move in herds we are so proud to be promoted to HNIC where we can preen on our towers of shame and claim that we are now permitted to spend another 10% of our time now equally a full 40% of our lives making some unseen entity richer so mockingly we ridicule those who would step out of this tune and march to a drummer that will bring them less money and more freedom we are so proud to wonder what kind of fool wants to work for themselves when with a little mis-education you can be a wage slave or maybe one day an overseer we are so proud to be fools although