Saturday, February 16, 2019

A Comment on the EMERGENCY

System Emergency

Wow I went to some shopping area
in So Cal to get to Lowes for a hinge spring
fix of a poorly hung door,
an hour of inches on stucco lined boulevards.

I was reminded that LA is not my cup of tea
with twelve lanes not enough for the urges
and the shopping center measured in square miles
so I used the nav to navigate the mall.

Parking filled with Rroom Rroom trucks or SUV’s,
a Lotus, a lowered Honda with motorcycle muffler
noises down-shifts into the stop sign to park
away from ground-effects fiberglass fairing damage.

Shiny chariots fighting for fewer steps into the boxes
where the imported clerks work discounted wages
in the franchised aisles, the dressed up eager buyers
busy buying something made in China, Indonesia, Bulgaria.

This suddenly an epiphany to me
THAT THE ENERGY IS MISDIRECTED.

The stuff, materials, the people power spent here
as this mishegoss eats up the loaf
until everything else starves,
except the crap to the masses keeps them down.

So they don’t notice their future being stolen,
It will take an emergency like WWII
when the consumption was redirected
into war by a unification of purpose, will, meaning.

Now lacking, so lets stop building shopping centers,
pay a little more tax,
and fix the country with housing for all,
healthcare for all.

Rewire the grid for renewable energy,
giving our kids a future.
Sure, we can do it, all it takes is an EMERGENCY
like maybe that stupid wall apparently is.

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