1

concentration of wealth, power, and freedoms 

in the hands of privileged classes,

fear mongering, the old ploy,

makes for easy control, to brow-beat the masses.

2

conform and obey, your patriotic duty, 

ignore any protests, though justified, 

condemn civil disobedience – all, 

science, an enemy, facts so inconvenient. 

condemn the discontented and suffering. 

praise privilege, nepotism and their cronies,

those who have stolen and murdered their way up,

our heroes, or arrived the old fashioned way, 

inherited from ancestors who stole and murdered 

their way to the top of this dung heap.

you too can get there, you’re just in a slump.

don’t worry, your turn will come; they’ve said so.

it’s just a matter of time, till you’re lovingly 

welcomed to their lofty heights.

but only after you’ve devastated retiree pensions,

and savings, swindled tax payers out of billions,

bankrupted local and national economies, 

destroyed our human habitat…

3

cockroaches will rejoice… good riddance to this 

infestation of an otherwise beautiful world.

perhaps they won’t contaminate their own home 

and food supply, that ephemeral layer of life on Earth,

I wonder if they’ll name it?

–LE