
Those Who Don’t Murder
a stutterer an albino a hermaphrodite a midget a doctor who can't dance a dog walker whose mother didn't love her enough a pipefitter who retired later than his brother a loser born with teeth as bad as his ways with women the cheerleading coach caught pilfering from her team knowing the football coach fucks her girls scott free a banker who lost it all investing with another whose wife won it all back on a scratch-off a vegan maimed by a bull a kid whose parents always skimped on his lunch money a barber with arthritis a grocery store clerk whose husband cheats and her daughter steals from her purse a drunk in a bar making a false accusation of his cigarettes stolen by another innocent drunk just wanting to enjoy another drink a peon training a manager in the ways of their business a pitcher near the end of his career with a blister on his throwing thumb anyone without enough money without enough love without enough caffeine without enough sleep without enough time without enough dope without enough god without enough life without enough death without enough pussy without enough music without enough solitude without enough strength without enough courage without enough attention without enough company without anywhere to go with too many places to be without enough freedom not even knowing what to do with it when any of it comes we get fucked in a variety of ways and we take it out in various petty vindictive ways so the question becomes are there more crimes against humanity over the lifetimes of the thousands who don't murder compared to the one in all the thousands who does?
