David Holbrook - Human Race

O to be a Doer!
A hole-in-oner,
A cute whore.

To sail the coast
twice as fast,
Beating hard
Never last.

To plug that gap
To find a market,
Doers together
On the red carpet.

B.A.
M.A.
PhD
To know more of the poet
Than He knows of He.

Turbo Saab
Mercedes Benz
BMW
Amongst my friends.

Was it the Famine
The need
To grab all the spuds
In greed?

Was it poverty
That made it so
To have winners and losers
As we go?

O to be a Doer!
A Man of Action,
A cute whore.

David Holbrook

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