Nice Boys and Girls

Nice boys find nice girls.
Clean cut boys
checkered buttoned down
solid bowtie
twice elbow patch
khaki/blazer combo.

Nice boys with
Quiet girls
popping their prescriptions while
the cat is away
on
business.

The rest of us -
Ruffians,
Rapscallions,
we are left with
dreck.
Meat for
the hounds of
hell.

In the dark
we entangle and scrape
eating the soul first and
the heart
last.

The big ending,
our grande finale,
another notch
on the
bedpost.

Heroes in
the revolution of
mediocrity
and
hope lacking
night.