the planned community

keeping the rest of us locked out
the community planned is the building
of the little kingdoms
all equipped with their walls &
if they could afford it, get the permits,
you know they’d have a moat
to beat the band---
no doubt jealous of the
richer, whose money has lead them out
to the international waters
so they can have their islands away
from the laws that fuck the rest of us,
no doubt jealous of the richer,
who fly up to the space stations,
under the guise of a special space endeavor,
making a new place to live,
sketching out the new empire
so as to avoid the radiation poisoning &
inevitable mutations that the rest of us will
get to cash in when the
nukes come a flying
left & right
from one madman to the next---
with white picket fences &
strict notions of behavior,
with a neighborhood watch
lined inside with rifles declared just under the
2nd (while still paying private security---
can’t have enough guns after all),
this is the wave of somebody’s future,
just not yours or mine.