Capitalist planning
Only do something if one can make a dollar
And certainly don't do anything
If one cannot make at least a billion dollars
Isn't it amazing?
For simple minded people
Like me, like us all
Living in a simple world
At a time when no one is working
At a time when no one is doing anything
Such wasted essential resources at hand
Such short sight from our leaders
Is amazing
Out of necessity
This one poem for human rights
Is going around the world
This is not 1929, or is it?
We will be heard this time!
The world is starving
The world has nowhere to live
The world can't even buy a shirt
For a job interview
At a time when we
Can't even get a job interview
Seems to us all
With so many desperate people
Struggling to survive
In such hard times
There should be plenty to do
To help ourselves out of this black hole
Instead
We're all stuck at home watching TV
Thinking of doing something insane
Going into deep depression
Wondering how to find something to do
That could alleviate
The world's pain and suffering
But overall to alleviate
Our own personal pain and suffering
There's no damn job left!
What remains is already well dodgy
Promising hours going off the scale
Below the minimum salary
Abuse and exploitation
Sell us your soul
Without reward
And we can't even get that!
No wonder many find
Going to the devil
Much more appealing
Who would not?
The criminal courts, the prisons
Are at full capacity
And yet
We should all get mercy in such times
That dying baby has got to eat something
One way or another
The only employer at this time
Who could afford to hire us all
To jump start the economy
Whilst helping so many desperate citizens
Is the government itself, meaning us
But the government decided, not us
To spend trillions on saving banks
With no thought left for any of us
Thinking somehow they would save the economy
Of an economic system that has already proven
To be fatal to us all, the people
You can only and always
Lose all your money to banks
We certainly lost it all forever at this time
Now is the time to cry
Now is the time to cry out
For such betrayal
There is no other way to define
This state of affair
Us the people
Should always be in charge of our own money
Lending it to ourselves
Never letting any third party making trillions on our back
Such basic things are so damn evident
Never let anyone on any government
Be ever bought again
To ever think otherwise
The government decided
To sack everyone instead
Early retirement and redundancy packages
Even for the ones under 25
Apparently even babies
Are ready for early retirement
There is nothing left to do for anyone!
We must find our way back to basics
And I'm afraid
The government must play a major role in this
This is a time of emergency
We'll have to think of ways to survive
Or have we lost touch with realities?
Growing carrots in our minuscule gardens
Selling food to the poor
To survive ourselves
Here is a small mathematical problem, grade 2
How many carrots one would need to sell
In order to pay the taxes alone?
Can't make it, there is no way!
Do not be surprised
By the essentials required at this time of misery
We all need to escape this reality
Forgetting food and survival
We'll always find money somehow
For cigarettes, alcohol and drugs
Desperate times call for desperate measures
There is nothing more important
When one is already dying of inaction
Feeling so useless
When so much could actually be achieved
In this world
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