Cock-sucking bastards
Always out to get you for another nickel
Cunt, whore, mother-fuckers
Can’t tell one from another
Always acting so important and professional
Good at masking that they’re such assholes
White collar pickpockets
Dispensing misery with their decisions
Lending money to people who don’t need it
High interest rates raping those who do
Behind that toothy smile and that suit
Are schemes to suck you dry
Acting like the moral leaders
Of the community
Check bouncers are losers
And frauds
While they are Gods
Excessively over-charging for all your mistakes
These fine upstanding members of the community
Who are church on Sunday
Will be fucking you up the ass on Monday
Fucking you while you’re asleep
Fucking you while you’re awake
Fucking you to see how much fucking you can take
John C. Krieg is a retired landscape architect and land planner who formerly practiced in Arizona, California, and Nevada. He has written a college textbook entitled Desert Landscape Architecture (1999, CRC Press.) John has had pieces published in A Gathering of the Tribes, Alternating Current, Blue Mountain Review, Clark Street Review, Conceit, Homestead Review, Oddball Magazine, Palm Springs Life, Pegasus, Saint Ann’s Review, The Courtship of Winds, The Mindful Word, The Writing Disorder, and Wilderness House Literary Review.