I'm in a circle full of losers

I'm in a circle of losers
alcoholics with no futures
a meth addict from rehab
a sister who likes to fuck her
sister's boyfriends
an open gay
a closet gay

some are not so genetically gifted
some are

I'm in a circle full of losers
two shoot at a pool table
and take a draw from the line

the sister kisses her sisters lover on a
chair as his growth angsts
her inner thigh

the other sister doesn't
seem to mind,
she found somebody else to
leech onto tonight

I watch them all like
some hot shot winner

I'm in a circle full of losers
that spin on the axis of this earth
where there are more and more losers

and maybe there's even
more losers beyond that

aliens with a paper-wrapped bottles
on the side of their intergalactic highways

but the world is run by the winners
who
jail the losers and
beat them
bully them
cuff them
raise their food prices
their gas and
lie for a vote

and then these winners grow old
and start wars for the young and the poor
who are tricked into some sick idea
of stars and stripes pride

these are the most innocent of all

I'm in a circle full of losers
spinning all around me
inside my tv
at the courtrooms
in the history books
in your bookshelf
in your radio

and I watch you all
like some hot shot winner