The Apathy of Optimism
Let's say that you have been fired
From your job after working there
For something like 15 years.
Let's say that,
Despite outsourcing and business mergers
And the synesthesia of new corporate marketing strategies,
It is a result of your attitude.
Have you ever considered that
You exist to feed others full of positive vibrations,
And glutinously so—
We can no longer afford to allow
The tempestuous climate change
Of social thought
Clamber, clamor, whatever
Over the barriers we protect
Our financial state with.
If you smile, exuding the morality
(That We would like you to have
) There would be no reason
Why
The Invisible Hand
Could not correct the economy
By way of correcting our behavior.
Deify the market,
The God of the Capital age—
Fear not the crumbling ruins
Of the Roman Empire,
Or the Greek Empire,
Or Macedonia,
Or Egypt,
Or whoever else
Was decimated by the erosive winds
Of class inequality and unnecessary suffering.
There is purpose
To your disgruntled, tumultuous existence—
It is to smooth the crags
That tear at your soul
And to be quiet,
To focus
On obeying our solutions
While we ignore your ideas.
(God loves you
(He guarantees a heave
(That should calm you
(Because you
(Can't help but feel alone
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poem by Tim Stensloff
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