1Apocalypse of Two
Here we number our cities
No Pittsburgh
No Warsaw
No Kalamazoo
Just numbers
We number our cities
Because we
Lack creativity.
Besides,
Hard-to-spell names
Of hard-to-pronounce
Places are a waste of time
A superfluous waste of time
So much easier, really
For us to number them.
First our Capital, City One
All business there, no place for fun
We always must whisper
For fear we will disappear
(It's happened before; walls have superior hearing)
Next is City Three
Where only 20 of the citizens are free
(the other 80 are indentured servants).
The ruling class does nothing but play
While the working class toils all day
(It's said that the 20 are inbred)
The worst to live in is City Four.
Why? It's infested with the poor.
Their eyes invoke pity and guilt
So it was ordered they were to be removed (the eyes, that is).
The blind lead the blind, who lead the blind, who step upon the blind
The next to worse is City Five.
Where you can only get high and jive.
Prisoners to their own
Junk
Cursed to dance in their own
Funk
(Many may enter but few will leave)
Oh wait, I forgot all
About City Two.
A shame. It would've been
Perfect for you
Not too small, not too
Sprawling, to live in Two
Was any man's dream (mine too)
Utopia? Almost
Apocalypse? Now:
It had the order of One
The freedom Three lacked
A fraction the poor Four had in droves
The numbers of Five
The leader of One
Decided
That Two was too much
He had the ruling class of Three
Use their servants to create weapons
Of mass destruction
Casualty
Death.
The numbers of Four (for once they were many)
Created a Legion who were given these weapons
Of mass destruction
Casualty
Death
The junkies of Five funded this war; surely they could afford
It.
And so, with their powers combined,
They struck.
The war was both long and short
In the end:
Five's populous continued their druggy shuffle
Four's economy was destroyed, their numbers were depleted
Three's ruling class nearly lost their copious labor class
Two was destroyed
One was pleased
We number our cities here, because, you see, it makes it
That much easier, when we rebuild