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© May 12, 2022, the Griot Poet
I have another dilemma:
So-called “sovereign citizens.”
Who stood with Cliven Bundy and his relatives,
Armed against the Bureau of Land Management,
The other acronym for “BLM” before Trayvon Martin,
I’m curious why they’re not up in arms,
About Saudi Arabia’s refusal to pump more oil,
Sending the price of gas soaring,
Sending groceries through the roof,
Sending stocks tumbling,
All because the “House of Saud” has a preference,
To the Republicans in the midterm elections,
We might see unleaded get to $7:00 per gallon,
It’s almost like we don’t have a sovereign democratic
republic.
Vladimir Putin has cut off oil to Europe,
Particularly Poland,
Waiting out the made for TikTok heroics
Of Zelensky, the EU, NATO, and the US,
Because he’s betting that the inconvenience, stress,
Plus, as a society, we’re attention deficit,
He doesn’t care how many Russian generals,
Or soldiers buy it,
As in, “pushing up daisies,”
It’s still a “special military operation,”
In Ukraine,
Which he doesn’t consider a nation,
By him calling it a war would mean mobilization,
Of Russian conscripts,
Young Russians have gotten the hell out of there,
Fleeing [to] Eastern Europe,
Thus making the median age in eleven time zones equivalent to
Fox News,
Putin,
The Saudis,
Venezuelans,
The nations of OPEC,
Play this game:
They control the world population with
Scarcity,
And the fears that come with that reality,
Think about it:
Would you stay in a job you didn’t like if we had universal
healthcare or paid-for college?
Would our groceries be expensive,
If every home and apartment had solar panels?
Could they differentiate neighborhoods based on property
values?
Thus de facto re-segregating schools and resources?
How could the grocers
At HEB, Stop n Shop, and Harris Teeter,
Justify the high price of eggs delivered by a battery-operated
18-wheeler piloted by a drone controlled by Alexa or Siri?
What if instead of supermarkets,
We had vegetables grown in vertical victory gardens?
What if we had corner vegan restaurants and butcher marts?
It would reduce the need for Ukraine,
To be the planet’s breadbasket,
A role they’ve had
Since antiquity,
Every human society,
Has kings & queens, billionaires, emperors, oligarchs,
potentates, and sheiks,
Controlling the levers of commerce,
Where people live,
And what’s said about them,
Mike Bloomberg owns Bloomberg News,
Mark Zuckerberg owns Facebook (or whatever “Meta” is),
Jeff Bezos, the Washington Post,
Elon Musk just purchased Twitter,
Rupert Murdoch and a Saudi Sheik
Owns the Wall Street Journal and Fox Propaganda,
Putin runs state TV Channel One
RT and Sputnik,
There is profit,
In gaslighting the masses,
Curating reality,
Curating what they see,
In 280 characters and “news feeds,”
Plantation oligarchs,
Used pamphlets to send
Poor southern peasants [to] fight
The “war of northern aggression,”
They bought the printed gaslighting,
None of those confederate soldiers got anything for their
“lost cause,”
Except for missing limbs and PTSD,
The plantation oligarchs
Who didn’t fight one INCH,
In the Uncivil War conflict,
They had one last trick up their sleeves:
They got reparations from the US government,
For the “loss of property,”
Now they have Reich Wing outlets,
Spewing bile and feces,
On radio, television, and the Internet,
Keeping them jacked up on anger and adrenaline,
Solving nothing in their lives,
And still turns a healthy profit,
My ancestors,
Who BUILT this nation
We are STILL waiting on reparations,
The framework of this nation is a caste system,
Ask Isabel Wilkinson,
The Dalets in India,
Jews, Gypsies, intellectuals, and the LGBT by the Nazis,
Who borrowed their insane ideas,
From AMERICAN eugenics,
Fascism is raising its ugly head,
In the 21st Century,
Gene Roddenberry predicted it with Khan Noonian Singh in
“Space Seed,”
MAGA is fascism
Fed by
Orange Satan’s version of
Joseph Goebbels “Big Lie,”
IBM sold the Nazis’ accounting machines,
Tattooing numbers at Auschwitz and other death heaps,
Florida privatized the foster care system,
Making bucks on the high occupancies that WILL occur,
After the revoking of “Roe vs. Wade,”
Mimicking for-profit prisons,
For-profit foster children that they do NOT care about,
Except for insane profits,
From Disney to New Auschwitz,
It seems Shakespeare was right:
“What’s past is prologue.”
My dilemma,
How long will we let the wealthy pimp us?
When are we going to recognize billionaires and oligarchs as
grand theft artists?
From Bildeberg to Trilateralists,
Parliament to Congress,
The filibuster in the Senate,
Republicans, either in the majority
Or the minority
Represents 41,549,808 fewer people than Democrats,*
They’ve shown us their kryptonite,
The grand theft artists fear “too much democracy,”
For this midterm,
And EVERY election,
Let’s give it to them:
VOTE!
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