American honor comes cheap and easy bought for the twinkle of tawdry New Deal trinkets proffered in exchange for our revolutionary, right-full place at the table rather than scraps tossed from the banquet commandeered by those we call our "betters" because they have more.
Via mis-education, advertising and public relations, multinational Circes magically metamorphosize American citizens into mere consumer-swine clamoring for a chance to wallow in the soul-swallowing swill slung into the pigsty profit trough of televison, glittering one-way conduit to the raging greed, envy, lust, hubris and gluttony of the Id, its depths plumbed by doctors of psychology, highly bribed to extract the Pearl of Great Price Free Will, replacing it with willing submission to wanton impulse and an addiction to the meaningless multitude of choices someone else has already made and simply displayed for us all of them proceeded by the command BUY!!! by which we are hoist on the petard of our own manufactured consent and sacrificed on corporate altars in cathedral malls called American Dream.
- Vi Ransel
Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).
