canaille

so easy to sneer
and peer down
on the masses
calling them classless
but really, is your snobbery
such an asset?
policing the gauche
for petty trespasses,
hovering above
the hoi polloi
like a balloon
waiting to be popped.
I cannot escape
the canaille,
can I?
and could I,
would I?
would I care
to join you
tenuously floating
and full of hot air