Eye for Eye / Tooth for Tooth

pretty dank 
these crowds and masses

so many people
more teeth than eyes

no one’s happy except the deluded
and the smug rich

in our pain
everyone seems an enemy

we smash empty the mouths of others
after we blind them

hard to blind them
when we ourselves are blind

harder still to swing at their mouths
in our darkness

but that is
what the law says to do

eye for eye
tooth for tooth

can’t see for certain
but sense someone watching us

opticians
and dentists

seekers of coin and
dependents

suppliers of reasons to fight
bakers and circus masters

makers of dentures and useless
but cosmetically stunning eyes

every last one of them the perfect blue
or so they tell us