21/9/2008 - Now the bastards have won: embracing the economic rapture.

the tenements illuminated

were recklessly coherent

their physics such a simple distillation

I understood the ways of the world

right and left, good and bad, up and down

in the Age of Aquarius

we knew it all

what have we become?

now there are liars and losers

now we socialise disaster

now we vote for the black man, or the old guy, or the chick

now we see fear in their eyes

now there are no shades of grey

now we never see the bodies

now there is a new tomorrow every day

now there is war for a hundred years

now they shoot the wolves from black helicopters

now the billions have become trillions and we no longer blink

now we know too much but never enough

now the bears are drowning in the polar seas but it isn’t covered on cable

now there are two chickens in every pot worth worrying about

now Olbermann worries Billo but he ain’t worried because he’s rich

now there are tiny black holes and chemtrails crowding the edge of my screen

now the bastards have won