Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The War Elephants by Mike Perkins


the peasants of today
are the angry ones
ignorant as Russian serfs
as superstitious as cave men
products of cable television
pseudo education
and fast food
identifying
with the oppressor
they are the shock troops
for the liberation
of capital
they will never see

it isn’t class warfare
not anymore
the war is over
we the people lost
then thrown into the pit
of economic fratricide
bowing low now to
the new pharaoh class
that marches by
who do not even glance down
upon our plight

conquerors
showing no mercy
who have placed the golden crown
upon their own head
a plague upon the land
these false profits of capitalism
who have ridden into town
not on the humble ass
but the mighty war elephants
which they stole
from the public zoos


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