Short Multinational Poems

A multinational corporation
Will probably sell your thoughts
In exchange of profits and assets,
More valuable than your freedom.
But can you stop them?
A real question.
Probably not, for you don't understand 
The rules of this game.
I have played for a while,
And have had experiences like forever.
It isn't a game of your opinions.
I understand now....

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The challenge of climate change,
Our atmosphere grows more deranged,
Weather patterns even more strange,
How can we protect our climates,
From multinational eco tyrants?
Big business still defiant,
How can we change our climate?
In defence of Homo Sapiens, 
We need more than panaceas,
To save our atmosphere,
Heed and listen to constructive ideas,
To change our climate here!...

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The Conference in Davos

Davos, men in classy suits, speak fluently
about the ills of the world-
They tell Greta she has to study economic
and coal will be phased out but slowly.

The young wonder why should they study
to get an excellent job in a multinational firm.

Davos, men in elegant suits, speak glibly
of growths, we don’t want more; we like less.
The young know this, we poor elderly too
and it is their future; those in silk suits fail to see....

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homeward

The landscape of my dreams is a Pampa
with occasional trees, 
Like commas stretching to the horizon and not a full stop in between the extreme 
I was born in a gorge between dark mountains
that was ok till the got a tunnel and Indonesian got work cleaning floors, 
we`re now patronizing and multinational.
Then an Arab arrived and many joined NF, except the teacher how refused 
to write anything with semi-colons and the swelling rank of neo- liberals....

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