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
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