Saturday 13 September 2014

Sleaze And Betrayal:

Welcome To Our World

Sleaze.
Corruption
Everywhere.
            Too clever
By far
For your own good
And ours…

       For example:
I won't be voting
             because
               I refuse
    to take part in
A charade.
       You people
Have allowed
           a terrible
Thing to 'grow up'
In this country,
           with voting
           having become
A farce, a fraud, 
                      an
Illusion. 
         I'm disgusted
With it, and
With you; not only 
For allowing it 
To happen,
                      but
For letting it continue.
                  long after
Its use-by date...

                And what
Of other such things?
                  I would
Have thought that
Much of this sort of thing
Would have been discontinued
                            after
The Savings & Loan
                      disaster
Under Reagan, 
                     letting
The children speculate
To their heart's content
                    all because
                the losses
Were being socialized -
           with guarantees
By the taxpayers -
          while the profits
Were always privatized.
                       What
A sweetheart deal…
            Sleaze.
            Betrayal
            of the promise
            of America.
            Which could only
            have ended
Badly.
As it did…

                 And another
Such thing:
Did the allopathic medical
Profession - aka
               industry
          (in cahoots
With the pharmaceutical
          one) -
                    tell
  (or do they not
                     still)
Their patients - aka
           customers - 
       about the role
Of hypoglycemia -
             aka low
          blood sugar -
In such conditions as
Alcoholism?  
        No they did not.
                             Nor
   do they still
              as far
    as I know.
                     Because
                    Why?
                    Because
           it is bad
For business…

I seethe
Inside
           about
All this
Sort of
Nonsense
            want
To round up
All you sons
Of bitches
Involved
And put
You in prison
Where you belong.

      And where
I belong 
Too
Then.

Why?
Because
I
Am You.
As You
Are Me.
And We
Are in this 'thing'
Together.

And I guess
That
Is what
Makes me so mad
That I could spit
           and spew
Me out of My mouth too

            in recognition
Of that ineradicable
And unalienable
Fact:
That we are tied
At the hip.
Brothers
And sisters
               all
Together

            so that
As one fails
So do
We All...

Come on.
Help me out
Here
So that we
Can all rise
Together

As the One
That We All Are
In the real
Reality
                  about
To take us Home
Again
Where some
Are not
More equal
Than others

     as in the realm 
         of
Sleaze
And corruption
And betrayal.
          Which is 
As far
As one - even
          One -
          can get
Here
To all
Appearances.

Come on.
We have work
To be about.
           Shake
A leg
          and be
A good egg.
               Not
A rotten
One.
              That
Would not be
The real You

        just waiting
   for the smaller you
   to claim
Your rightful identity
As We.
              --

Sleaze.
And corruption.
And betrayal.
And…
           redemption???


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