Yes, you’ve heard it before, but it’s still relevant … yet again…

Our Modern World

One

concentration of wealth, power, and freedoms
in the hands of privileged classes,
fear mongering, the old ploy,
makes for easy control, brow-beat the masses.

Two

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…

Three

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