buying sandals

The driver will give me a broken record tooth revival chain
It will be mixed in with the grin and the grain and commotion
drying like salt left out on the doctor’s lawn in air of Uphaliday,
cosmetic, dreaming of summer passions where the animals tread

the chauvinism of dancing barefoot as if the sand could not tell
toss your marriage certificate into the light of flame breathing woodlands
welcome your silent passenger like a furnished home made just for you
never stop buying sandals for your older sister who helped to raise you

do not forget the Earth like it is a jewel pardoned from your memory
your family no different than a family in a refugee camp, an ethos of unity – remember
passivism is a disguise wore by many but it is cowardice in the trench
it is a selective hypocrisy, we each have our selling point, just so rarely
is it each other – remember to buy sandals for those sisters among the world
while your pockets do not carry enough food or water, you can at least die for them