Give Everyone A Medal For Everything

Give them a medal for standing still…

for eating the most hot dogs…

for living in the cold the longest.

Give them a medal for being there, or,

not being there…give them a medal

for whatever they want.

Ask soldiers if their medals really 

mean anything to them…ask for me,

I’m curious.

Give medals to the poets, the homeless,

the single mothers, the old men alone

in hotel rooms, the street children, the

lost dogs.

Why should the criminals that kill all

the rest of us have all the medals?