Majority Control

 Majority Control

 

It was a precautionary statement

Concerning the storage and eventual

Disposal of the sum total

Of the accumulated common sense

Of generations.

With all the complex inter-related factors,

That eventually lead up to the inevitable

Break down of strategic multi-lateral discussions

At the highest level.

 

However, it was reported by pundits,

Those in the know, that the talks were

Productive.

 

Although the population had no real concept

Or early warning system to protect them

from the approaching madness

Concerning the trauma about to be unleashed.

 

Sheep and fodder.

 

The backstage lobbyists, developers, board members

And those with the majority stock options

Were in the loop of mankind’s opaque destiny

To make war in a time of peace

in a cost benefit sort of way seemed to the

Powerful, refreshing and exhilarating.

Their sons would never see a gun, 

Or walk a battle field

In the short term the most profitable option

And so, it was using ploys and proxy votes

Symbolic democratic virtues that

War was declared

For the benefit of mankind

 

Superficially, the powerful prayed

That their God be on their side

Those to be attacked and preempted

Had a similar prayer

And so, the tale goes

In all our virtue and with our greed

We rise up to bomb the oppressed

To liberate them.

We praise the lord

We count the dividends daily

Eventually, it will all trickle down.