Sunday, June 07, 2015

The Last Laugh

The chosen one waits for her coronation
making speeches, shaking hands, kissing babies
passing herself off as
one of us
another downwardly mobile commoner
toting a list of grievances

Watch what she does, ignore what she says
we’ve seen her kind
before

The best and brightest are relics of Camelot
this is the age of dull and dumb
small and fearful minds

Duopoly party retreads strain to convince
us that they have the answers to
all that ails the nation

What they offer is more of the same
more salt in our wounds

Money has poisoned the landscape
legitimized callousness and cruelty
legalized bribery
turned avarice
from vice to virtue
made ghetto wages
acceptable

Laughing hysterically Karl Marx
watches the capitalists
cannibalize the structures that made
their wealth possible

Pirates of modern finance strip the value
from every useful enterprise
like jackals stripping the flesh
from a carcass

Wealth flows from bottom to top
and the poor are expected to compete
with the wretched of the world for scraps

The nation fails its senior citizens and
children
fails students and workers
fails forests and rivers

But when all is said and done
when the ruins smoke
and hiss
when the sky weeps
toxic tears
the rocks and the dust will have the last laugh





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