Soylent green perhaps

In this country we can all be millionaires. We just -

just need a million dollar idea, capital and the stars aligned in our favor.

You can take any good thing and corrupt it into a bad thing. Take pre-made chia or hummingbird food – first ingredient water then sugar.

I can take any love and ruin it.

A respectable life and crash it.

If only I could take the idea of homelessness and make it into a million dollar idea – soylent green perhaps.

All the opportunities are in place – we only need a treasure map,  Red Chucks and a MBA – unless you have the million dollar idea. Then you need a ship, a crew, a parrot, an eye patch and fire power.

All the opportunities are overseas.

But we can become millionaires.

One day I’ll learn one foot in front of the next. It wasn’t a million dollar idea, however it gets me around.

(2010)