Nightmares In Margins Poem by John Sensele

Concrete craters sprout in the capital city
Discrete development delays stuns a ghetto ditty
Why should ghettos be marginalized
Why should discrimination be formalized?

Monsters of structures munch ghetto millions
Songsters of sorrows punch ghetto zillions
When ghetto welfare on the periphery moans
While their fanfare in the territory dawns.

Jezebel jalopies in their roads juggle
Mirabelle mirages in ghetto streets struggle
Amid conspicuous consumption they enjoy
While for ghetto priorities derision they deploy.

Puny priorities glut ghetto needs
Loony loyalties ingest ghetto social seeds
Maintenance of affluent distance lives in ghetto emaciated bread
Sustenance of effluent instances gives ghetto nightmare dread.

Dysfunctional street sockets mock ghetto friendship
Maledictional sights stroke stains and strains in ghetto kinship
Poverty riddles huts in which our rights scrounge
I wonder in which century my blistered feet will step into a lounge.

Don't ghettos deserve any better?
Aren't squatter citizens a trend setter?
Leave my ballot alone
Cleave your egotripping into a clammy clone.

Nightmares ghettos hate a lot
Blistered biceps hate it when your gangs gloat
Teasing ghetto silence
Sleazing your licence.