Language of Reality

Do you know the ABC
survival guide in real life
put it down in your dictionary

anger, boredom, conformity,
danger, exhaustion, fake,
greed, hunger, injury,
killings, lootings, mad

this isn't poetry
this is the language of reality

did you learn your ABC
survival guide in real life
gotta learn your vocabulary

nothing, obscene, pain,
queers, rampage, shame,
terror, useless, vanity,
wounded, x-rated, why?