Gimmicks and flashing lights,
distractions from life,
the essential.
…
Advertising and capitalism:
strange dreams implanted,
exploitation, manipulation,
dumbing-down,
constant delusions, lies,
sucking you dry,
making you demented
and infected.
Virus!
(To be continued…)
©SvetkaSamizdat
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I despise rich Russian scum,
they think they can do anything,
and they *do*,
trampling all asunder,
as if god’s “chosen”,
easing vague memories
of Stalinist excesses
with pious consumerist decadence.
They know they are disliked,
but they don’t give a shit,
time’s too precious for that,
keen awareness of transience:
today’s king, tomorrow’s Romanov
(we can hope).
Hah!
Despicable scum, indeed,
exploitative, lying, thieving criminals,
the worst form of prostitute,
rather like their compatriots,
the English, and Chinese,
Americans, French, Iranians, and on…
… People (fallen, debauched, empowered),
now there’s a story!
(To be continued…)
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The expensive, scientifically proven moisturizer, anti-aging formula, works wonders:
it makes 16-year-old pretty girl models, look something like 16-year-old airbrushed young women.
Go get some today, at selected stores, locally.
Buy the dream.
(To be continued…)
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From birth, they bombard us with images and ideas:
This is what you want! This is what you desire!
They pretend that you should aspire:
There are ways and means of buying things, like happiness!
This is what makes life worth living.
Are you willing to be a member of society?
Good! Welcome, Consumer…
Unspoken rules, prices to pay
loans, usury,
slavery.
Sign your name in blood,
pledge your allegiance now,
Enjoy. Drink a Coke or five.
And please remember:
keep you hands and feet within the vehicle at all times,
and that
your insurance policy does not cover suicide.
(To be continued…)
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I’m in the hotel, end of train journey.
I switch on the TV: News, and confusion.
Top story: A venerable travel company’s gone bust,
it’s been in trouble for a while,
thousands of customers stranded abroad,
fears realized (maybe they got a discount for their gamble?) …
Just one of many bad, sad and mad
gloomy news stories,
on this melancholy gray day.
But relief is at hand, “friend”, take a breath, yes, take a break,
it’s TV commercial time.
… “Feeling down? Feeling blue?
Then why not book next year’s vacation now!
We’ve got some great destinations.
Book now! Beat the rush!
We’re the travel company you can trust!”
…
Alas, capitalism never stops.
(To be continued…)
©SvetkaSamizdat
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They bombard our minds,
triggering new compulsions.
Highway robbery.
(To be continued…)
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We all have a role,
expectations to fulfill.
For this we were born?
(To be continued…)
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People are starving,
living, suffering, striving, dying,
in abject poverty.
Meanwhile, “they”,
the representatives of the one percent,
wipe raindrops off a tennis court,
scraping, scuffing, foot-on dragging
21 luxury super-soft Egyptian cotton towels
(meant for the faces and soft bodies
of celebrities and rich wannabes).
Wasted.
Disgraceful.
Sick, sad society.
(Would it kill them to use a mop?)
(To be continued…)
©SvetkaSamizdat
…
The advertisements provide a valuable service,
reminding me of the life opportunities I’m missing.
So, OK, yes please, sign me up for that extortionate loan today!
©SvetkaSamizdat
…
The Nazis “lost”,
but actually they won,
(seeds) in your hearts and minds,
the machines you drive, desire.
… Money and prestige
trumps morality.
©SvetkaSamizdat
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