Diffidence Declamations Poem by John Sensele

Don't delay the dime
You dump into the hungry hand
Where your greed grows grime
Grieving, groaning, griping in my lonely land.

Don't deny dignity
To the stressed street kid
Whose crime is to undulate unity
You torment in your conspicuous consumption creed.

Don't delete the demand
I say to claim the cake
You insist disobeys the corny command
To sink my starving stomach into the lampoon lake.

Don't switch off my sanity
Wishing for hope, dishing out dope
To fly afloat in the soporific sorority
Where pangs of poverty won't stop the pain periscope.

Don't drive a wedge
Between faith and freedom
Cos you made a permanent pledge
To rid my culture of the Sodom kingdom.

Don't look down on the dopey dress
I wear as I nibble crumbs
From the truculent table you impress
As the impecunious poor admire your Paris pumps.

Don't dribble the distended duodenum
Asking for fresh fish
The stomach monitors in the moon millennium
Although you claim plenty fish favour your wicked wish.