There comes a time

There comes a time when you are fed up to the teeth
with people ramming bullshit down your throat:
politicians, TV ads, company presidents,
the whole bloody lying lot,
urging you to deny your common sense
and trust their brand of deliverance.

Life itself is simple,
they don’t have to invent ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents,
to con you into believing it’s less than a hundred,
they don’t have to pretend that poison is good in the air
and your biggest concern is the colour of your hair.

One ad lures you into eating fattening food,
the other sells programs on how to lose weight,
knowing you would never prevail
but continue straight into obesity, diabetes, unhappiness,

that they could sell pills upon pills to cure
or send you to doctors, spiritual healers and psychiatrists
to prevent you from cutting your wrist
or blowing your brains out in depression,
even though they could profit from the congregation

lamenting your early demise
in a ten thousand dollar funeral
that you could buy insurance to finance:
they will show you TV ads for your guidance.

When will you have enough of this blatant attempt
to corrupt your thinking, rot out your brain,
make you believe that white is black and evil is good?

You should believe in simple things you can understand
like being creative, helpful and compassionate
to your fellow inhabitants of this godforsaken planet…

Abandon this misguided faith
in the deceitful bastards pretending to be smart…
and trust the better advice
of your own brain and your own heart.