Neoliberal psychology
Guess work astrology
Ideology of technology
Not biology or zoology
Climate change tautology
More misled mythology
With plenty of misogyny
So don't be a progeny
Ruining our ecology
Perfidious methodology
Investigate the pathology
Dodgy as any theology
Populist prodigal prodigy
Just wild child kidology
That’s their anthology
Still we tighten our belt
But as we surely melt
Plead need oncology
For hand they've dealt
For everything smelt
Time for a heart felt
On bended knee knelt
Apology..!
(A haiku suite)
Racism Chardonnay
flesh-eating fungi
gorged upon humanity
never to be healed?
Capitalism Merlot
symbiant becomes
neoliberal parasite
none for all for one
Xenophobia Sangria
bring your tired toward wall
who like living in cages
got somthin' forum
Democracy Moscato
glitch in the matrix
democrat/republican
i want a do-over
Patriotism Chenin Blanc
grand experiment
do what founders' ideals said
unlike what you do
Public Convenience
A war ‘nowhere near me’ is a concept that does not exist
an oxymoron so to speak and weep and cry or believe
propaganda for the convenience of denying responsibility
Wars allegedly ‘afar’ is a notion too far removed from the
distortion that you and I do not benefit from the slaughter
as the wealth of some is built on the shoulders of many
who suffer for global greed oil exploitation geopolitical
domination for booming stock markets and neoliberal evil
Call me touchy feely or a pacifist to discredit my knowledge
but my paradigm is one of hard core sober fact that in my
name and without my direct consent rape pillage and plunder
deface the human condition and legalize collateral damage
What a euphemism to ask me to close my eyes in view of
pulverised people atomised ashes and call them not near
Rapacious avarice or conscientious objection to misleading
terms and diminutive are a choice very close to my heart
20th May 2017
Neoliberal Elections
Actually my hyperbolic suggestion is not that new
apart from the vote casting honesty it might pursue
as it is known to democracy with all its respect due
no more veils from rich over poor to give you a clue
We have cell phones and finger prints for transactions
iris photos and soon microchips for regular satisfaction
in commerce we trust so there might be some traction
to link consumer sales with how we vote in elections
How many ballots we have to establish who is the winner
must tie to overall purchases what we spend on our dinner
and luxuries cars perfume Democracy 101 for the beginner
proportionally less say when our wallets are much thinner
The big spenders will directly determine who’s in charge
they can simply make more crosses so no change at large
far fewer concerns no hoodwinking for those on the marge
only truthfulness in that some do not rule as they are ‘savage’
06th September 2016
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