Delicate scarcity

People started crowding just to get a ration 
In the queue around the new buildings color of ash
a line of families stretching around them
frowns and downward eyes slowly creep forward
beside second line of deperate single young people

society is just as much a hospital
as it is an amusement park

Children need to recieve their ration
The lines were chaotic hungry of poor fashion
Neglected families grin obviously sarcastic pretend
Knowing by the time they get to the end
No food or assistance just frustration
their hunger and their desperation

will be fuel to get them home like whip lashing
Until they return the next day to struggle for a ration
Among yesterdays mess and their own discarded trash

In a world where scarcity drives economy a knife
dividing high social strata from all form lowlife
they'll retire as calamity ensues
streets fill with injured multitudes
mal nutrition and misfortune wolf who'll slay
follow close behind bullet teeth displayed