Putrefaction Charles Bukowski

of late
I've had this thought
that this country
has gone backwards
4 or five decades
and that all the advancement
the good feeling of
person toward
person
has been washed
away
and replaced by the same
old
bigotries

we have
more than ever the selfish wants of power
the disregard for the
weak
the old
the impoverished
the
helpless.

we are replacing want with
war
salvation with
slavery.