Saturday, June 5, 2010

Cancerous Valentine

Is it the government’s job

to hide the truth from us

if it is in its own best interest

so we not lose confidence

in the already agreed-upon lies

which are in our own best interest

when the government is a Potemkin

Village big business resurrects

from time to time

when the common wealth

is sold back to us at

poverty-insuring prices

it’s not capitalism

we’re afraid of

it’s the rank materialism

that hides inside it

the cancer we support

posing as salvation.

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