Uncommitted

By Richard Mather

You can hardly say that I

abide by the rules

of political commitment

or that I affect

the diction

of the dispossessed.

Just like you

I can walk away

from the on-the-dole youths

and make it back home

at the end of the day

to bed and to sleep,

unperturbed

though quietly appalled

by the ugly

obscenities

scribbled and sprayed

on the underpass walls.