Angst

A group of wealthy people
dressed as if going to a 19th century ball,
top hats, canes, watch chains, parasols,
crowd surfing over a middle class
of bland, gray, dirty catholics,
heads smacked with canes when hands not supporting.

Painfully bleak expressions on all faces
disgusting corpulence of the upper class
asinine yammerings of the middle.
Money’s disrespect for humanity
frigid as the azure core of a glacier.

The ball participants drop
dirty catholics tired of supporting
the dancers are stripped of their
worthlessly expensive clothes.

Dirty catholics
dressed as if going to a 19th century ball,
top hat, canes, watch chains, parasols,
crowd surfing over the new middle class.