Labels are these useful
but distorted categories
that are put on bottles,
jars and packets
of people so that when
needed or when they
be ready to consume,
other humans
and great corporate things
can pull them out and make
them do whatever they will.
Labels are as neat as
they are clearly defined,
and so they seem to help
the human family
order and classify,
catalogue and refine,
all the messiness and
disorderly conduct
that we can’t mine;
and they assist
our noble goal
to suppress and shape
those who don’t seem to fit
in the customised shelves of
bottles, jars and packets
that adorn our civil selves.
24/10/2016