Synthetic America

I’ve got a ring side seat

To the demise

It’s flimsy brittle plastic

Toxic and cheap

Made in China

By peasants seeking a better life

Now enslaved

Like us

To the punch clock

Of our crumbling Manifest Destiny

Stuck in reverse gear

As past debts

Are repaid

With current debt

With ravenous interest bulging

With corporate Karma

With blood

With currency devaluation and

The promise of another fix

From the COSCO narcotic pharmacy of

Walmart and 99 Cent Store trinkets

The United States of America

Has been purchased

Essentially for beads

Manhattan Island was purchased

By the Dutch in 1626

From the local Canarsee Indians

For beads

The Canarsee resided on Long Island

The real residents of Manhattan Island

The Lenape tribe

Went homeless and beadless

History repeats itself

The Wall Street warrior tribe

Of New Manhattan

Lick their chops and count their beads

Unearned spoils from the sellout

Of what they have never owned

Just as the 30 day extended warranty

On my broken plastic ring side seat

Expires

Copyright 2010 Patrick Granfors