An Upside Down World

If you're not careful, 
the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed,
and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. - Malcolm X
World 
always seemed
upside down.
Something
been bothering him
since the fifth grade.
The banker was a thief,
the minister was a liar,
the butcher didn't like stray dogs.
Town cop was a crook
and his teacher was an idiot.
Coach couldn't catch.
They 
knew best,
they all told him.
They all knew best -
All the time.
This 
is how things are,
they told him.
It's not us, it's you,
they told him.
Seemed 
upside down.
He wasn't stupid
and he saw what he saw.
Upside
down.

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