time of the assassins

time of the assassins

a nation

of hungry people

who have a lot of guns

cars and computers

with which to express rage

at the excuses the rich

come up with

to hold onto 99%

of the nation’s wealth

the vanderbilts

built a summer home

mansion with gold

ceilings and faucets

off profits

made by working

mothers and daughters

to their deaths

in Philadelphia textile mills

in 1970

the nation’s wealth

was its most evenly distributed

in history

one could afford an apartment or house

the arts scene exploded

children were not left in daycare

what happened after 1970?

harvard business school’s schemes

reagan

bush

clinton

bush again

high infant mortality (docs don’t go into it for medicine anymore)

record homelessness

better jet fighters and aircraft carriers

more wars

decressing wages

astounding CEO packages

we’ve been plunged

back to the

guilded age of robber barrons

life requires exploitation

time to represent ourselves