by Martin Anton Smith
Isn’t It Weird?
How We No Longer Have ” Economic Recessions”,
Yet More & More People Are living In Cars,
& Strung Out On the Streets.
And For those Not Actually Homeless,
There Is A Consistent 20-30% Of People,
That Are Living On the Near Margins Of Destitution.
Then There Is The Casual Anarchy:
Of Street Crime,
Its Raids,
Its Assaults,
Its Murders.
Yet They Tell Us The ‘GDP Numbers Are Up’,
And Employment Rates Are ‘At Record Highs’.
It’s Of Course A Total Swindle – We Know What’s Going On.
The Growing Ranks Of the Undeclared Underclasses –
Or Simply the ‘Men & Women Of The Pile’ –
We Know The True Reality –
The Bastards Have Manicured A Giant Rubbish Tip –
Not For Themselves, But As A Home For Us.
The Pile Has A Very High Leafy Green Tree That Sprouts From the Center –
That’s What They Live In.
So High Is The Tree – That They Can’t Even See The Stenchful Rottenness Below.
So High They Can Congratulate Themselves On the View – Without Feeling Any Irony
And So High they can Chatter Of The ‘Clean Crisp Mountainous Air’ –
& Tell Each Other That That Nasty ‘Rubbish Dump Modern Art Sculpture’ –
Is Actually A Distant Problem –
Not Of their Making – One They Don’t Really Need to Worry About.
After All – They Live In Those Sun-soaked, Leafy Green Treetops.
But All Delusions, Of Course, Must Eventually Be Dashed.
One Day –
At A Time Not Of their Choosing –
They’ll Have To Admit,
As They Pluck Their Bulbous Gleaming Fruit From Their Towering Tall Tree –
That It Now Tastes Really-Rather-Rotten,
With All Prior Residual Sweetness Now 100% Fully Dissipated.
And So Does the Next One Taste The Same –
And So The Next –
And So The Next –
But Even So,
I Doubt They Will Ever Fully Admit To Each Other,
That It Was Their Own Folly That Soured Their Own Fruit.
For They Thought The Scam Would Last For An Eternity.
……Meanwhile…….
We The Masses Are Cursed To Endure The Anarchy Of the Pile,
To Eke Out A Living,
Of This Razor-Sharp-Tin-Can-Plume,
This Widening Garbage Dump Society:
Filled With Soiled Old News Papers
All With These Kind Of Headlines:
“GDP IS UP & EMPLOYMENT AT RECORD HIGHS”.
Yes – We ‘The Men & Women Of The Pile’,
Resilient Though We Are
Have Had It Right Up to Here,
With This Deepening Suffocating Impoverishing Pile –
This Twenty-First Century Westernised Bantustan,
If You Will.
It’s Time to Call A Spade A Spade –
And Finally Dig Ourselves Out Of “The Pile”.
Then The Tree Will Also Fall.
Anton Martin Smith Writer 