used to be…

“you don’t sell the steak… you sell the sizzle,”
has turned into our being bowled over
“if you can sell the sizzle… don’t bother with the steak!”
conned cajoled thoroughly rolled over
when one considers what’s at stake
we eat the icing not the cake
we have become a world played on as fools
instruments of consumerism automatons tools
that which once had prevalence
has memed itself into irrelevance
significant incidence
has shrunken to insignificance
all the treasured inference
has melted toward indifference
advertisements may make us laugh hearty
we feel as though we’re at a big party
con-men never breaking tensioned
product details never mentioned
in vigilance we have to wonder
what is stealing all our thunder
labor money means of production
each of us in a vacuum of suction
leaving one-percenters standing
on a lonely starship lunar landing

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old gold

korea mccarthy jfk
vietnam and mlk

flower power watergate
seems we never get it straight

covert actions blackened ops
chicago kids beat down by cops

playing ball and playing hard
like college students the national guard

iran contra moving forth
ronald reagan olie north

kuwait and oil and desert storm
brutality becomes the norm

the middle east and nine eleven
will we ever get to heaven

afghanistan iraq my friends
it looks as though it never ends

whatever happened to days of god
and strolling down the promenade

when life was sweet and folks were tender
inspires now return to sender

Resistance Poetry

Verse as Commentary

craig rory lombardi, bronx born

Written by

NYC incarnate. Snake hips chicken lips and other flights of fanciful whimsy. Musician, Renaissance Mo-Fo, Beatnik, Philosopher, Feminist. Purist of the impure!

Resistance Poetry

Verse as Commentary

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