The One Sided Mirror

 

 

Prepare; propel

Awaken from spells;

As Gecko lied, no goodness of greed,

But the prince and princess whine and plead,

It's all become a part of me,

Here, living; driving my will,

asking me, over and over again

whether I know of this or that,

selling to me the impossible dream

and how to use their credit card

to pay the impossible bill,

a scheme

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At a litter of lies televised,

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I laugh and think, how brilliant;

This master plan; Brooks Bros. clad

gangstas and crooks unfolding

to be shown on every station, in every home,

deranging gods and methane politics,

launching a full and methodical diss

on resources and opportunity; our freedom and

Sanctuary,
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All while we watch the coming abyss,

Falsified furrows of rug-burned brows

and deadpan smiles gleaming with sets of

life-time veneers on sharpened teeth,

promising cheer in friendly commercials

funded by bank fees laid on the waitress,

preyed on the nurses; counselors, and workers,

raping the widows and honest educators,

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powerlessly, we, the people, paying for

bank bonuses, bait and switch advertising

Even as we're evicted from homes,

And our tax dollars flow to greed with zero fees

for the poorly regulated rescues

of financial institutions like these;

Some on the brink colapse,

but many, bailed out for their frenzied greed,

Solvent banks, with little debt or need for Tarp

Borrowed millions of your hard earned tax dollars

free, free, free; free, free,
Free;

doing no work, gaining millions in interest,

paying the balance like good little thieves,

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Then more commercials...with kids and kittens,

while cutting millions of in philanthropic spending

from groups they'd been supporting for years,

appearing as fans of the same communities

they are now evicting

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The greed that needs
A 12 step program,

Three or four 90 day slams; but unlike any other addiction,

All the fun had,

looks more like cash
in today's tell-all, peek-a-boo land,

The users have their drug of choice

With no concern for others, or desire to let go,

There's no way around it,

and and it can't be done alone

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We'd like to give them a hand,

But man, those commercials are funny as hell,

The perfect distracted in way of harm,

Shrouding names and ironies; connections and truths

and the perfect timing of stories ignored like,

'Iraq, the Blanket Keeping S&L Scandals from You',

Sometimes you gottta laugh at how

It's all so very clever...the powers that woo,

Misconfabulating through distant satellites to

expectant faces from

The one sided mirror,

hoping every home, has an uninformed fool

 

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© Arkay Evans 2012-2015
Photo:  Microsoft