It’s all geared to take what is in your
wallet and put it in theirs.
So the Principalities and The-Powers-That-Be
bombard us
with advertising and messages
that begin to seem simply as what’s fair.
We are conditioned to move
from couch to car to store after store
and buy more and more and a whole
lot more.
It has to be that way the elected lackeys
to The-Powers-That-Be say.
It is the patriotic, American Way.
Their pockets are so lined,
The-Powers-That-Be achieve
a state that’s seemingly divine
while it’s not hard to tell
that 99 percent are going straight to
economic hell.
What’s the antidote to such dis-ease?
Revolution, guerrilla war, suicide and
homicide?
More and more bloodshed is seen
more and more
with blow-back on the rise — just
more dis-ease, more dis-ease.
Peaceful protest, please!
the prophets cry.
Justice, self-sacrifice,
mindfulness, the life of Jesus,
the Buddha, Lao Tsu
and other guides to the eternal, too,
if you please, if you please,
if you please,
please.