it's got to be more

it’s got to be more than
the flailing of limbs above your head
and the parade down broadway declaring your intentions
to find a revolution in waiting in the hearts
of those who plant crops
and those who enter data
and those who walk to school and wonder why
it’s so goddamned expensive

it’s got to be more than
magic descending in the night
to convert the masses to your way of the world
and destiny unfolding as if you had envisioned its creation
moulded with the manifesto
set out eons ago
in the darkly lit rooms of
an idealist gone awry from the world’s preconceived notions
of success and fortune.

it’s got to be more than
hammering out a few notes on a handkerchief
and pretending that makes up for your research skills
gone missing in action– valiantly defending your hangover
a sickness that infests those around you
the way your common cold
of negativity
has found the ability to do.