Specimens
Look: the City’s
Soft belly
bulging with Haves
Arms and legs
brimming with Have-Nots
One day they will metamorphise,
those Have-Nots,
into peach and orange butterflies.
Just one more year,
(always one more year),
is all it will take,
to join the Haves,
pinned down on mounting board
their ornamental, static wings
spread wide and labelled
securely,
anaesthetised by their own abundance.