Humid Thermos
I see us
cowering within
our safety walls
of sterile
nonorganic comfort
I feel us,
almost smell us,
struggling
vacillating between pungent stink
of fear inside
and acrid
acidic anger
about life sucks outside
Emerging toward viral hate
directed against entitled Others
unwelcomed emoting immigrants
encroaching on our safe home space
It was those Others
who hired friendly corporate attorneys
and management vested accountants
keeping hidden retainers,
possibly cooking kickbacks
and slow stealing our collateral
real propertied
co-investments.
Nor does this predative silence
of neglect,
abuse,
obfuscation,
dispassion
sound newly sinister
Long darkly aged,
unconsciously mature
and overwhelmingly mighty,
professionals waiting for weighty collapse
under inadequate concrete savings
against rainy steel-bent days
unveiling structural collapse,
lack of sufficient safely humane
compassionate glue
to grease our capital
co-invested,
our dwindling
resonantly resilient
natural and spiritual resources.
I taste bitter refuse
of a half-century collapse
beginning with personal
and corporate developing greed,
consumer theft,
dis-incarnate bankruptcy
Future river-front homes
and industrious
beauty restoring family businesses
starved by disingenuous divestment,
sold and bought at public auction
by a second degeneration
of non-resident
richer investors
supported by street-side renters
and river-view penthouse winners
with decks
and wealthy walls,
enchantingly radiant
western
witless windows.
I know we are waiting,
like resident domestic workers,
starving cockroaches,
sleeping, stepped on serpents
To hear our next executive decree
born on high
Another miscarriaged plan
for extracting fees
to impossibly balance debt-riddled budgets,
exploding deferred care
for ourselves
our homes
our neighbors
our vehicles
our plants
our sheltering roof
our cooperatively invested finances
our ancient communities of good-humored faith,
our non-anthrosupremacist planet,
our future EarthTribe viability
Longing to thrive,
not further derive
imagined barriers between
resident owners
and those non-present investors
and their assumed to be careless
and clueless
unwoke
ungreen
unhealthy immigrant Renters
Afraid we cannot polyculturally survive
further entitled executive
"I'm your professional Daddy"
Abuse
and autocratic
extractive
emotion-deferred,
scientific political
and macro-economic
and positive socio-psychological
and Win/Win cooperative game theory
and nonviolent communication
neglect
Of healthy GreenCommons interest,
co-invested compassion,
integrity
win/win thriving
our most wealthy
abundant cooperation
Healing nightmare visions
wherein I see us
cowering within
our severing
anthrosupremacist
unsafe walls.
Copyright ©
Gerald Dillenbeck
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