The White World

Leave your shoes on in this temple.
Watch your toes.

Black screens, bright green letters.
Numbers flash.

Grey walls.
Grey desks.
Grey floors.

Wilted white dress shirts.
Perry Ellis ties, blue pants.
Rumpled jackets.
Don’t stand out in the White World.

Short hair.
Flourescent lighting, strained eyes.
Glasses.
Young men, old before their time.

Quiet voices.
Don’t make waves.
No questions asked in the White World.

Money jokes. Quite a place.

Their goddess decided to take a dive.
The stock market fell along with their faces.

Lunch at your desk.

Hand to mouth, but I’m my own man.

Just a visitor.
Don’t think I could live my life -- 
In the White World.