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The Knacker
by Vi Ransel
www.dissidentvoice.org
May 5, 2006
The lot
of most
of mankind
throughout all of history
has been abject poverty.
Not the artificial kind
designed by advertising
instigated by insufficient quantities
of de rigueur commodities,
but from the reality
of the eternal, relentless
mortifications
of the flesh --
disease
starvation
and
exposure
to the
elements.
Subtraction from
healthcare, food aid
and home heating assistance
in the Killing Floor U.S. Budget
showcases the depraved indifference
of the wealthy and corporations
who have purchased tax cuts and
subsidies
with pounds of flesh incised from the
poor
prior to knocking them to their knees
for slaughter
in the economic abattoir
by means of the eternal, relentless
mortifications
of the flesh --
disease
starvation
and
exposure
to the
elements
from which The New
Deal
and Labor
Unions
temporarily
delivered
us.
Demons of Greed and
Depravity
currently
control
corporations
Congress
courts
even
Christianity
inciting each me
in We The People
to abandon solidarity
for a chance to gaze down in exquisite
contempt
on the mass of struggling humanity.
But since this small, exclusive
Fraternity of the Few
has not enough room for most of the
many,
this simply insures their
self-destruction
and their ongoing submission to tyranny
fettered by the eternal, relentless
mortifications
of the flesh --
disease
starvation
and exposure
to the
elements.
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by
the endurance of those whom they oppress."
-- Frederick Douglass
Vi Ransel
lives in New York, and can be reached at:
rosiesretrocycle@yahoo.com.
Other Poems by Vi Ransel
* Servitude
* Pictures
of Iraq
* Mass
Production
* DUH?
* MOLOCH
*
Sumeriology
* Poor in
America -- P.I.A.
* The
Treadmill
*
The
Driver