Poet’s Corner: One Solution

Bankers rule with technocrats, neoliberal leaders

Looking after all their own they nonchalantly bleed us

No revolution of the mind, the problem is systemic

Love can’t cure the ills of a financial epidemic

Voting,

Products,

Media,

All methods of control.

Either sell your soul to them, or sign up on the dole.

 

Class is still the issue now, just Chavs instead of proles,

They changed the names, the beast evolved, to keep us in our roles

Distractions of celebrity to keep our minds from thinking

We’re staring at the mermaids while the ship is slowly sinking,

Stand up,

Rebel,

Have agency,

We must take it, not ask kindly.

No longer just subordinates to those who lead us blindly

 

The enemy is borderless, a small migrant elite

But us! We are the 99, together we’d compete

With those who have the power and ideals of exploitation

Haunted by austerity we pay our owed taxation

Profits,

Land,

Infinite growth,

A plan of pure delusion.

In worlds with finite resources they sell us an illusion

 

By Steven Maclean