Do you have
right music,
right slang,
right stuff hanging under
correct clothes?
How do you pronounce
your family name?
How do you count
your money: with one hand,
two hands, a boatload
of servants to help?
Do you dream
America as you’ve been told
to dream it? Do you perform
your Body
as given,
as you’ve been
trained to do?
Do you consume as required?
Are you ravenous
for pleasure,
abstemious
with self-sacrifice?
Just enough pain
to pass around?
Is the resultant gain
yours alone
to take
and hand down?
In other words:
do you know the codes,
where to punch the keys,
into whose ears you should whisper
the passwords?
If so,
won’t you share them?