© 2008 M. Bennett Hooper

 Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith two Blues singers of bygone days sang and wrote..”Don’t like my ocean, don’t fish in my sea. “ “Stay out of my valley and let my mountains be.”
They were singing about romance how timely if we in our time send out these lyrics to would be politicians who are managed by the corporatacracies of the world.

My ocean is America where the economies of scale find the middle working class are no longer needed as they are left behind sacrificed upon an altar of greed where corporate executives make millions as the government bails out their faltering companies, and reward others increasing profits in the military industrial complex as we are told private armies are fighting for peace.

Stuck on stupid is a now popular song played by many who think they are powerless when faced with diminishing opportunities for their children and grandchildren who have been sold into the new world slavery markets of service only occupations and urban school systems continue to release hostages upon a slumbering populace who wonder about the choices of thug life by the young who have watched the real thugs daily don the uniforms of white collar graying society.

Surprised are many who discovered that they too are expendable and cannot afford to sit idly by doing nothing.
Kola Boof speaks of the “Impotence of integrity” which is a daily meal for too many who are allowed the illusion of leadership and instead secure their comfort zones by purchasing things they cannot afford to impress others who could care less if they live or die.

What so proudly we hail is not enough if we continue to encourage gladiators to kill each other for prizes they will never win and we the elderly sit wondering what could we have done differently as we refuse to believe that we too are powerless.
Longer life expectancy is a mirage when health care is unaffordable.
Who are the vultures, who is the meal.
Ain’t no telling.