Excretory Rex

First,
I am not a smart man, a healthy man
or a reasonably sane man.
I haven’t wealth, power or privilege.
In spades,
what I have earned is ignorance
sickness and instability –
poverty, lies and exclusion,
and I’d say that’s all you need to know,
but I started this on the word “first,”
which means you deserve a second –
being a fair man… here’s your number two!!
(please note: as originally performed
you would now be getting shit
hurled at you from the speaker’s podium.
This is in decidedly poor taste,
but engendering poor taste, well,
that’s just how poverty works…
so eat it.)