Pandemic Nerves
Not wanting to make anyone nervous,
pandemics can be unsettling enough
without economic and political surprises,
inconvenient systemic insights,
more expansive circles of empathy
positively impressing
more than negative deep
steep hierarchies
practicing neglectful shallow sympathy
for Others
remaining NonMothers
on distant drowning pagan shores.
These government checks
that come and go in the mail
or by direct deposit
between you and the IRS,
these speak up for
"From each according to her/his financial ability;
to each according to his/her immediate need"
Which sounds suspiciously Karl Marxian
and that Engels white labor-activist guy
Than speaking empowerment efficacy of
and up
and for more competitive evolutionary
Capitalist Voices
fossil-fueling financial systemic choices
"From each consumer and taxpayer
as much as possible;
to each producer and legal resident
as little as possible
in return."
These pandemic support checks
are public welfare investments
in our cooperatively held economic
and healthy democratic wellbeing future,
and healthy wealth of future multicultural
generations
With resilient ability to pay back
and long-term financial need
to cooperatively thrive
more than competitively barely survive
Economic co-investment values
usually attributed to scary words like
"Socialism"
and "Social Engineering"
but also speak of cooperative win/win
long-term healthcare thinking
more than BusinessAsUsual
competitive win/lose scheming,
nightmarish climate pathology
white privileged escapist dreaming.
When these twelve
and six
and fourteen hundred dollar checks come
from our federated governing system,
this is closer to Cooperativist Economic Behavior
Than to Communism,
where the State owns all the assets
and capacity to produce cash at will
and redistribute monetized wealth
not based on earnings
but on the number of human mouths to feed
and water
and keep relatively comfortable with sufficient healthy food
soil
clean water
non-toxic air,
reasonably non-traumatic
unruly
and highly erratic fire
and weather
and rabidly depopulating epidemics
of pollution
and generic habitat neglect...
So, when your fourteen hundred dollar check
peacefully arrives in your checking account
or in snail mail,
please remember,
with personal gratitude and political respect for integrity,
this is sacred GreenCommunion
at our cooperative federated best;
social democracy of an extended kinship kind.
You and I have no further reason to worship
at the monocultural altar of unfettered
monotheistic Capital you can't see,
A system designed for predators patriarchally
against their unprivileged prey,
without becoming uncomfortably aware
of our cooperatively unmeasured share
of codependent hypocrisy
About unpatriotically not supporting
multicultural EarthTribe's healthiest
wealth of cooperative economy
enfranchised inclusively
green and organic naturally
transpiraling democracy.
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