Greed is Good*
brands and little tender hands,
sewing and sweating,
in dinghy factories and in smoke-clogged stands.
Haute-couture and ostentatious labels,
black and blue whiskey on heaving sushi tables.
Greed is good,
it ‘enhances’ free-market competition,
as we blindly scamper from mall to mall,
devoid of a scintilla of compassionate vision.
Greed is good,
oh and it feeds,
on complicity,
apathy,
as we reap the rewards,
of the sowing of hypocritical seeds.
Greed is good,
yes it is,
as long as we can buy and buy and buy and buy,
and
as long as there’s gourmet coffee to be had,
and,
as long as there are oysters we can lasciviously shuck,
oh yes,
greed is good,
so we sew our mouths shut,
as we frolic,
as we party,
and,
as we fuck**.
Greed is Good*
* – title borrowed from Oliver Stone’s film ‘Wall Street’
** – dialogue from Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” – Marlon Brando as ‘Colonel Kurtz”
” … We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won’t allow them to write “fuck” on their airplanes because it’s obscene! “
Greed is good until there’s no more resources to be exploited… And then we die. Nice poem.
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thank you, friend.
much appreciated and humbled.
warmest wishes and regards.
Peace and Equality for All
👍✊✌
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Great writing again. Truth here. Crazy wirld
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yes indeed crazy bloody world.
thank you again friend.
Peace and Equality for All
👍✊✌
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A very relevant point, Afzal.
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many thanks, dear friend
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warmest wishes. crazy work week lol.
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Glad you are busy. It helps.
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it sure does dear friend 😊
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