WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS!

Until they place
The barricades
And stand by them
And have weapons
Plus willingness
To use their force
And we are not
Equal to them
In anything
But our numbers.

Jim Morrison
Sang, “They got the
Guns, but we got
The number,” but
A great rock star
Does not a wise
Strategist make.
Steel, armor, and
Bullets will take
Down the numbers.

Consider the
Ending of The
Loneliness of
The Long-Distance
Runner, a film
From the British
New wave, angry
Young man, kitchen
Sink period.
(Spoiler alert.)

The runner stops
Steps before the
Finish line, thus
Maintaining his
Independence,
Achieving a
Brief victory
Followed by
Anonymous
Work and orders.

The tech people
Have created
Surveillance tools
So pervasive
That control is
In the hands or
Sleepless eyes of
Ones and zeroes
Computing and
Not competing.