Surreal Expectations -- December 1989  

The legacy of the more affluent few
    who have attained their goals
    atop a mountain of weeping flesh

The dreams of our Young
    too young to have yet had their dreams
    ground into the mud of life under the
    heavy boot of a tyrannical mother
    or an incest prone father

The hope of the Black
    who has not yet been tarnished
    by the bitter sting of the WASP

The beginning of a new life for the women
    who have finally been vomitted
    from the guts of the oppressive male

The end of the Gay Man's fear
    the threat of disclosure
    homophobic reaction
    loneliness, Aids

Cessation of gnawing pain
    in the distended belly
    of the starving child
    who ate ants last night for dinner

The hope against all odds that,
    if the walls of Jericho truly tumble
    down, they will stay down

The existence of the good life
    and the hope of all that some day
    Christmas might be real for all