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I wonder, is this as far as we go,
have we really tapped possibilities,
all the potential of being at large,
you mean to say this is humanity?

Fat alpha males in suits and their women
parading around town in finery
behind tinted glass and majority rule,
deciding the fate of the many?

If you stripped them down and let them run
they’d be most unfit, the slowest
cats in the jungles
true litter runts – off the record? – quote me!

We are one-dimension and myopic
singularly obsessed with that single obsession
to grow, watch the revenue charts
zigzag higher, and steeper,
thicker and deeper

I do so like green cash and glam
I would like it in a bank
I would like it girdling my flank

Make love to me, oh mighty dollar,
never let me go

© Carlos Chagall, 2013