The marketing director for the department of Everything is Fine

cuts out the disconnected, the supposed blight

Anything and anyone that deviates from the flavorless version of their ideal

must be eliminated from the glossy brochures that assure

shareholders along with obedient pitchfork and torch raisers

that the conditions under the rule

of the United Corporations are great and getting greater

Newscasters for the grifting enterprise

smile and take the bribes

They tell us to be quiet about the violence

but silence is a slow death

and being cooked alive on the low setting is no longer enough of a reason

to keep on being

an ant

marching to the tune of a song called “comply or die”

Time for the pieces to connect into a picture that can’t be denied

The song changes

The wind carries our words

and shifts the tides

A broken toilet, disconnected from the plumbing system and separated from any place it could be useful, is forced to occupy a space where people passing by become angry that the scenery is marred, yet nobody moves it- because we can’t be late to work, because we don’t have the right equipment to lift and move something so heavy, because alone, we don’t have the resources to fix the problem.

The current system was designed to be an obstacle to any type of progress that doesn’t benefit the wealthy donors who have purchased politicians’ favor. This system is only workable when we are merely individuals, trying to exist and endure, but when we step together and organize, we become something the system of oppression can’t survive