Tuesday, September 13, 2011

We’re Living Funny Lies

Being coptered to my safe compound, I actually believe I’m worth my millions in salary and bonuses
We assure our Offshored they need only wait for the better new jobs coming Real Soon Now
Driving my hybrid 90 miles a day feeling like, you know what, I’m really making a difference here
We fill cute green cotton bags with water-wasting, slave-produced food shipped thousands of miles

Violently rejecting taxation while remaining purposely silent on reducing costs or cutting benefits
Fleecing the faithful for money, power and sex, as sales reps for wornout and fictional gods
Pushing FeelGood sustainable solutions but never mentioning necessary drastic population reductions
Glorifying the infallibility of unregulated markets while whining for subsidies and import tariffs

Assiduously recycling all my paper for shipment to china, merely to package more plastic imports
Demanding a faith-based administration but shouting that the same government stay out of our lives
Hypnotizing the lower class with clever hate speech while on the payroll of the corporate elite
Knowing our God is love as we heed His jealous demand that we smite His heathen enemies

Plastisizing my car with earth-friendly slogans made in toxic sweatshops by exploited illegales
Feeding the world with a patented seed, genetically modified to require our costly pesticides
Abandoning old suburbs for that newly-bulldozed but carbon-neutral and greener tomorrow
Hard-selling funds we purposely stuffed with crap, even as we ourselves hedge big against them

Calling for an end to greedy development threatening the gorgeous viewshed from my own new home
Gouging the bourgeois with pricey lifestyle drugs as we ignore the global disease scourges of the poor
Hanging a cute puppy calendar right by the table where I lay out our tasty but tortured family veal
Deliberately warping all their proposed legislation while damning the deceptions of the other side

Howling for freedom from government even as we condemn its lack of quick emergency response
Rebranding an unchanged, business as usual as some new, patriotic clean-coal energy independence
Paying huge premiums for USDA organics uninspectedly coming from, of all places, china
Posing as independent cowboy heroes, trampling predator-freed public lands with our welfare cattle

Posturing obesely in a loud and ugly pickup that I certainly don’t need and really can’t afford
Trumpeting the virtues of a foot-dragging negativism to whip up an ignorant anger in the alt-right
Holding guilt-free to the decision made with my personal savior to smite religious fundamentalism
Praising our sacred Human Resources even as we plot to outsource them and renege on their pensions

Ever proclaiming our holocaust suffering while we wall the Palestinians into a hot, desert ghetto
Parroting your donor propaganda to reframe science into an empty and politicized media debate
Subsidizing Wall Street Cons to pimp phony carbon offsets and Ponzi cap and trade scams
Demanding soil conservation as I endlessly fertilize, pesticide, cut and water my fakely-green lawn

Rapping out that yes-yes, we can-can change: and backdoor dealing just like we always have-have
Grazing swinishly at the rich troth of absolutely unquestionable and ever-increasing arms outlays
Nurturing a fat, ignorant pride on Doritos, Twinkies, beer, generic cigarettes and cheap hamburg
Living the lie that it’ll all somehow make sense in the end, during some, real fuzzy, happy-ever-after

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