Bruce K. Gagnon
Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He offers his own reflections on organizing and the state of America’s declining empire….
Fire Sale
It’s all about looting.
The corporations
Mr. Big
are lined up and ready
to feast
it’s a fire sale
and the people’s
airspace
the Internet
is on the block
to be chopped
and handed out
to the already
rich and greedy
it’s a fire sale
there is an emergency
in the House
Mr. Big owns it
and now Congress
has decided
to hand him the
keys to the door
and the city
and the national
treasury
and the Internet
it’s a fire sale
Ukraine, Greece
African continent
‘vital resources’
cheap labor
Mr. Big wants
it all
and he is gonna get it
because he now owns
the Internet
and the people hardly
raise a voice
they are too busy
knocking down pills
or gazing at
Dancing with the
Stars
or peeking from
round the corner
it’s a fairy tale.