The Selling of Youth

Boy who squawks meets promise boy above the straight and narrow.
Everyone is happy with the tally on the square.
Peasants balk perceptively and irk the minefield pharaoh.
Massive waste of paper is occurring everywhere.
Machines learn to babysit and greed is just a specter.
Somewhere sullen women lip-read Nietzsche on the train.
Automatic autocrats devise a better vector:
Easy on the underground but taxing on the brain.
Past the wash of history, the dirt of time unravels.
Cheaters speak of eloquence and highwaymen of peace.
Politicians pontify the latest scams with gavels.
Liquid loving landlords conjure up another lease.
Man who squawks tells promise man that nothing they did matters.
Crowds who cry at movies unexpectedly take flight.
Leaping lords and devil dogs mad dance as kinship scatters.
Oil-encrusted meaning slowly covers mother night.
Ghost who squawks and promise ghost are fading out of sight.

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