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Retrograde Liberty



You’re a consumer pawn on the cargo chessboard,
being merchandise moved 
by the mighty, 
free-market bellow powers-that-be:
The Babble Tower titans of industry

And the fawning, vote hopes that you have
is advancing 
conveyor belt backwards
The packaged progress that you ballot bought
is expired, retrograde liberty

It’s so commercially uncool 
to be a grin shill, shiny used tool — 
a patsy E-bay product sold down perdition road
Material serendipity    ~    Ignorant bliss gluttony
is the narcotic, marketing mirage
of merchant debt slavery

Arise, to another automated labor dawn,
and get usury pressed on the profit iron board
Let the starch resistance in your lungs
feebly be diminished echo expunged, 
on the first and third week of each month
Stop the clock grindstone ... get spend happy

Pass Go and retail sample 
all your Mediterranean mall eyes can eat
Strap the credit Boardwalk bank accounts in;
enjoy the lavish buffet discount weekends,
those gorge giddy sinful getaways 
Letting your pursed lips coin splurge comfortably

Tomorrow sorrows is yesterday hangover yawns,
courtesy of some loan shark upper-class spawns
giving you more underwater mortgage freedom
Atlantis dream house of plastic bondage
is a back-to-the-future, antiquity straw commodity
  
Buy another fetter timeshare bronze skin link,
written in New Roman font invisible ink:
An emancipation contract redacted permanently

Then pulse pawn a purchased posterity lot
of pyramid beggarly, 
plantation shade retrograde liberty

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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Date: 1/24/2019 10:16:00 AM
Great poem, RomWar, dynamic as always, with crisp, unapologetic observation.
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Date: 1/23/2019 5:05:00 PM
Whoa! Can you just put it out there like it really is Freddie? I am dying here. "free-market bellow powers-that-be: The Babble Tower titans of industry" - any particular Tower, any particular power-that be? I am loving this POEM!
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Date: 1/23/2019 1:19:00 PM
Powerful way of looking at it.. nice title..
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