" title="Painted, spoken Peter McCarey
‘First, we take Manhattan’ – Leonard Cohen
‘They sentenced me to twenty years of stardom’
Said the system
‘For snorting all their weapons-grade cocaine’.
Passengers in the cage
Of a high-velocity elevator
Disappearing up some tower’s nostril
Attempt to break glass over switch
Marked STRUCTURAL REFORM and find it’s armored.
PARODY we’ve pushed; now what does JEOPARDY entail?
The tower has been hijacked
By well-connected men.
*
A billion Anglophones, a billion Muslims
A billion Chinese, a billion Christians
A billion subcontinentals, one more
Living on dust – that’s six.
Two billion ageing, three billion women,
Dire diarrhoea, four billion children
The dear dirempt in sunken straits and drier,
Deconditioned air. The lions hone
Their cutter claws and drank the well dry.
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