Dark Age #2

Yes, It's getting worse...

family, community falling apart,

dog-eat-dog subhuman world.

Harvesting bodies to sell organs

to hospitals not just some horror

movie.

Hey! Rimbaud didn't have much

nice to say either!

Industrial war now endemic...

no profit in peace.

Yeah, we protested in the Sixties.

Lots of protests now, difference is

we knew what we protested for.

Hey! Lorca was murdered by Fascists!

If you work for a criminal company,

Monsanto, Lilly, on and on, you

are a criminal too, don't you think?

Fewer places in the world where

people consider the common good.

The USA exports evil Moloch greed.

Hey! Ginsberg wrote this sixty years

ago in Howl!

Inured to violence,

in the neighborhoods,

on the roads,

in the cinemas,

in the media,

the reality Americans breathe.

Hey! Jacques Prevert's poetry

wasn't always pretty!

The monks burning themselves

in Vietnam, trying to warn us,

today would just go viral.

Poets sing the truth,

even when it's bad,

better than the alternative:

to be a slave

to a lie.