sipping coke

So here I sit
In my aeroplane
Drinking, sipping


While somewhere in the dark
A man dies of AIDS
A woman is raped


And what do I care?
I’m 3000 miles above
Above them all


Drinking, sipping


An addict is run over in the streets of New York
By a hummer
But I don’t drive a hummer


I’m 3000 miles above it all
And so is the captain
The flight attendants


You
And me
And them


But not…
Them.
The tired, the poor, the huddled masses


Not ours.
We can’t support that number of people
A child starves in Mexico, Iraq, Sudan, The Phillipines, and never makes a sound


He knows that we’re all too far to hear him
3000 miles.


Sipping, drinking, sipping coke.