We turn a deaf ear to the greed of Big Chemicals and Big Ag
that’s caused the suicides of thousands of India’s farmers
and live in denial that several large corporations
are completing the privatization of all the world’s water.
We shrug off murder, rape and genocide in Africa
as long as it secures the coltan for our new cell phones.
We won’t look at the blood that’s dripping from diamonds
as long as they’re set into our engagement stones.
We don’t trouble our beautiful minds about the children
killed and orphaned by American shock and awe bombs
and we soon forget those left homeless by Katrina
as long as the destitute families aren’t ours.
We accept the corporate version of what passes for news
and avoid seeing wounded vets and flag-draped coffins
or the blood and brain-spattered bodies of Afghans and Iraqis
as long as the plasma’s got Soaps or the Big Game on.
Oh it’s all just too bad. But there is no alternative.
And after all they’re just underdeveloped savages.
So we look over or under, around and through it
because to see it would actually implicate us.
And the Rich beneficiaries of transnational corporations
actually feel the same way that you do
about rape and starvation and child sexual slavery
even when the one that it’s happening to is you.
This Over Class feels for you and your children
just as you do about the suffering and death of others.
It’s just that they’ve been able to run a game on you
and make you believe they’d even consider you as their brother.
Like family dogs chained outside to boxes alone
in the bitter winter cold by “animal lovers”
and cats run down deliberately on country roads
because they’re “sneaky and eat birds that are valued by hunters”
or male baby chicks the egg industry finds useless
quickly separated, gassed, macerated or tossed into a dumpster
and stomped by poultry workers to make room for more bodies
while many of them are still peeping for their mothers
or adult chickens chained upside down by their feet
and boiled alive to make your favorite chicken nuggets
or fully conscious cattle hoisted and ripped from throat to groin
and dismembered to be ground up for your burgers.
or perhaps tiny raccoon dogs skinned alive in China
as “acceptable” fur for American toys and clothes,
little eyes alive with pain as all their nerves ends are exposed
when they’re tossed on a pile of bodies and left to die slowly
or domestic pets like dogs, eaten as delicacies in Eastern markets,
legs broken, pulled over their backs and trussed like turkeys,
whose eyes plead “Tell me what did I do to deserve this?”
as they wait in excruciating pain to be someone’s entree.
This is EXACTLY the amount of empathy you can expect
as you and your children are killed silently, slowly
by the foods you eat, the air you breathe and the water that you drink.
Did you really think the Rich would give YOU an alternative?
The Fortunate 400 whores will never allow
the rest of us into their Platinum Circle.
It’s enough we breathe their air and drink their precious water.
But, wait a minute. They’re making us pay for it!
Why do you THINK you drink bottled water and suck an inhaler?
And what’s with all these new autoimmune diseases?
What is it in those chemtrails that they’re spraying on us?
And why do 300 US areas have air that’s too dirty to breathe?
And in addition to the profits that the poisoners enjoy,
there’s a bonanza for the medical establishment and doctors
who profit handsomely by treating the symptoms of diseases
and looking the other way when it comes to finding the causes.
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