Voyeur in the new Dark Age

[Kailashana]

There's a recluse
inside dying to get out
and smash and grab all the loot
handed down from generation to
generation. Ill-gotten gains, plundered
resources of earth, mined and refined on
nearly-broken slave-like backs of hatted people
just trying to stay alive.
There are no fair wages if paychecks stretch
from here to food banks and the threat of joblessness
or illness looms but one or two paychecks away.

(Social, the secret word of the day, berated and
made vile in the free market that replaced Democracy
with Capitalism. Didn't we all buy into that or weren't
we paying attention when it wasn't us being marginalized
and "our union" was strong enough to still turn the tide.)

I burn incense that smells of frankincense and
myrrh, I worship the ground that Jesus walked
on, and ain't it grand that Conservative Republicans do too?

No condoms, no abortions, it's God's will to procreate,
but fuck the bums when they're born.....the yellow, red,
brown, black, white salt of the earth, let them burn down the ghetto
while we fortify our gated community with armed guards,
we know the revolution is coming, but a Corporation-President away.

Dear deep-pocket Richie Rich candidate, please remember
you forgot how to show those
who weren't born with silver spoons how to pull up
their own bootstraps on $9.00 hr with all those hungry mouths
to feed.

Hey, man, isn't there an App for that?

I feel much better now.


(with a nod to Buk's BLuebird)

[saw]

an apt a description as I've ever read on Empire and the misery it leaves in its wake......no sense it tryin' to gussy it all up.....lipstick on a pig ain't gonna make it
kissable....glad you got that off your chest Anna...ha