Rhinos

Charging Rhinos 

Baby's a debased accessory 

Clinging like a monkey to a tree

Only scurries when he's in a pack 

Not in another's shadow and he's taken aback

If Mama doesn't charge then you're standing still

Beating to that drummer for some dollar bills

Maternal rewards breeds a rattling that's noxious

Can't breed contempt though because he chose this

When Mama darts, he turns his gears

Others haven't seen his eyes in a thousand years

Expunge those three cheers 

And the pats on the back

What you think you have is what you lack

The light is feigned, it's truly pitch black

When his acts were courageous

His agreeable demeanor was so contagious

Catch a whiff of subtle potency

Never causes discord, always agrees

Can't see that it's been enough

Stamp home sweet home on him

Call him brown and rough

Self-respect out the window

In purgatory, reached a plateau 

Want to throw my middle finger up you know

Try to put a halt to little rhino being putty

But he's so foolish, so discreetly clumsy

Starry-eyed like an L.A. waiter

Only thing I can do is warn of the danger

When they don't listen to the "loony" speak

Downward slope, things are looking bleak

Mama Rhino assails like a stampede

Drills into the baby till his forehead bleeds

"Are we agreed? This is all I need,"

Triumph and authority

But I want more for me

Absolute majority

Is the priority

Catch up rotund one

Take my machine gun

Shove it down your throat

But try to stay afloat

For my sake 

Remember this planet orbits around me? 

If it didn't we'd be sinking in catastrophe

You all would sizzle like a third degree

Bound into the ditch like you're trying to pop a stitch

In your clothing, I can see the parallels

They want to throw him right off that carousel 

Save him from the detrimental whirlwind

Oh Big Baby don't succumb

To treachery, the night's still young

The lot still says their prayers

To mend your brainwashed affairs

Can't be downstairs when she's upstairs

It's like we're playing fucking musical chairs

Let's play a game---it's called up we catch

Whatever she says is what you fetch

Get down on bended knee

Kiss the sordid ground

Insincere smile merges into a frown

Wrath's still unbound

But the damn little rhino still comes around
Keychain to a knapsack
Don't let yourself be a cracker jack
Trinket like the black market
You're getting rug-burned just like a carpet
When the wicked leads the blind
Later rather than soon they will find
When it's too late the perverse
Will be hauling you on a hearse
To the graveyard
Rest in peace bootlicker
Never instigated a bicker
Not even to the highest bidder
Not in dire circumstances
Not in trying times
You rather be like Hester Prynne
Silence will lose your mind
Rather eat it then release it
Refuse to liberate 
You grit your teeth
Rather plug your nose till you can barely breathe
"Folks who practice cathartic ways
are wasting away their days!" 
In a blinding haze as they blaze
Amid the craze emotions so shining with moistness they glaze
You were raised to praise and bow till your spine snaps
I'll fold my hands till you collapse
An awakening, but soon you'd relapse
Thirty years, you'll look back on this time lapse
Why'd I shove Life under my shoe?
That was caked with mud like filthy glue
Snagged in a rut, wedged in the crevices
Do you even know what self-worth is?
Respect receding like a fossil man's hairline
Siamese magnets, next time I'll make a beeline

To be continued.