Thursday, 23 December 2010

Poems for Edmonton’s culture and Convention center…

the book is coming along…

on a drunken night i decided to keep a few renditions,

and now back in suburbs,

i recall i am to have someone type the entirety of the book and then let me edit as i go along…

the problem is i wrote some pieces as stand alone

and other parts help the narrative…

which for some reason

is important…

one cannot be

for…

unless one is choosing death…

                          opposition and control…

as the Buddhist proclaim

no duality,

or as the christians profess

eternal love

or as the P&G crowd preach

authenticity

we do not want to win arguments

only share ideas

Let’s get rich

i support wealth and creation

now say a super ambitious dude

worked 5X harder than me

if he wants two wives

that’s fine with me

 

but if he wants to earn

eleven thousand times what i do

                      there is  some conniving

logic is not at play    


 

Money

Paper money was backed by labour…

and in demand just prior to the revolution 

                           

labour was the first currency

then slaves were brought over

       

then paper was backed by gold

which is finite

 

now paper is backed by the super power

                        an industrial military complex

 

“who” now systemically

is outsourcing to corporations

 

it has to be an endless war

that is their industry

their manufacturing base

their high paying jobs…

 

and did i mention

home to billionaires

 

smile it’s xmas   

 

Capitalism      

to spend a billion,

one would have to spend $30, 000 every day

for ninety years

or more realistically

a billion dollars is spending

a thousand a day for a million days

or

1,000,000/365=                            2739.72602739 years

roughly 2500 ears

 

2500 years of theirs             is worth one of yours spending a $1000 a day

to make a billion dollars if you were paid a 1000 dollars a day would take a million days or 2739 years

so on a average salary of $30 it would take 33,333,333 hours 

or 11,415  years working everyday, i mean everyday,

8 hours a day, at $30 an hour

a billion dollars a year is

365 days

eight hours a day

is 2920 hours

divided by a $1,000,000,000

is $342,465 an hour…

 

a billionaire makes $342,465 an hour

 

and a really super good extra deluxe phd

carpenter gets $500 an hour

 

while the rest of us stiffs are lucky to make $30 an hour if that

             there is some massive disparity in wealth in the united states

 

News

mainstream media call it wealth

it has it’s own section:

         business 

              in old days it was called power…

master slave as camus describes

 

question

competition is good

but when the house

keeps changing the rules

in their favor,

            to use a sports analogy

                               the playing field becomes unlevel

and lets sing along

the rich get richer

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