A poem by Gary Clifford Gibson.

 

 

In the optimal allocation of resources

global corporatist and socialist management

were twin terrors when democracy vacated

defense of individualism and borders, good nationalism and ecology

fell to inevitable largest clumps of power

drawing people magnetically into the fields of woe

 

 

Increased efficiency downsizing diversity

stamping every silly soul with trademarks of treason

consolidating control monopolizing time

everything bitter, galling, negative broadcast blamed for contents of mime

defending the survival of the powerful in corruption

degrading the optimal, inventive, efficient, ecologically rational and just

eliminated personnel; genetic restructuring would bring a better truth with new letters anyway

 

Sides of squares multiplied for areas in total control

an economic polygon of UN-N dimensions

in natural unemployment equilibrium of deleting the superfluous to enrich the rich better

quadratic equations of relations given literal, false values

 

Democracy cannot exist with concentrated wealth

if five percent of the electorate has fifty percent of the vote

when five percent of the people own 50% of the wealth

when the ship of state leaks illegal immigrants inward

while the poor below decks haven’t health care or food

as the people are pimped consumers of power’s products

citizen have no savings or capital, democracy dies

free enterprise withers as global networks skim trillions

reallocating resources to the tyranny of oligarchy and oligopoly

 

Ownership of broadcast media in propagandizing power

against democracy, against free enterprise, against fair competition

skeletal,criminal corporate and collectivist reapers of reason sew raving

idiocy unto confused and corrupted mass minions

powder puffed patriots challenged by comfort and wall to wall debt

fight for conformity to totalitarianism or neo-authoritarianism

leaving human decency as a road kill behind

laid to rest with good neighborliness and common sense

 

Corporate collectives with a majority of the wealth

a mintkowski space-time warp

graviton and cashiton financial flow exchanges

networking reality with breathing taxed by corporate servo-units

authorized patents licensed for 100 years enhanced in mind-numbing designer D.N.A.

 

Wild life wandering in civilizations has no place to rest

before humanity hasn’t either

as the perfection of global obsessions

discovers cracks in the mirrors of social reality.

 

 

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  • thestickman on Sep 2, 2009

    Wow… my head kinda aches now.

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