This Is It

this is as good as it gets

don’t let anyone tell you different

we’ve wasted our perseverance 

on someone else’s watch

we’re medicated, 

numbing ourselves 

so we can bleed

for some else’s greed,

this is as good as it gets

you put on your Sunday best

you shine your shoes 

and meet for lunch

at someone else’s expense

we queue for something to do

we whine to pass the time

we wait in line to ask the time,

we jump the line to whine,

this is as good as it gets

don’t let anyone tell you otherwise