Category: satur sulit

CASABLANCA

Satur Sulit

we must remember this
a spin is just a spin
a lie is still a lie
our only consolation is
that time goes by.

for when the day is through
we all know what is true
no matter what they do
the truth will out without a doubt
as time goes by.

kickbacks and payoffs never out of date
safes full of secrets, hidden wealths and dirt
liars will lie and spinners live to spin
what liars can’t deny

it’s still the same old story
the lust for power and money
a game of yours or mine
the dream to have it all forever
but time goes by.

LAW AND ORDER

Satur Sulit

How truly remarkable that in this our great Anarchy
there should reign a successful order in society
to wit, an order not deriving from achievement of government
enforcement of laws or performance of taxes
but rooted in the natural necessity of us Homosapiens
to organize ourselves for our survival and enjoyment
in the face of life’s difficulties and vicissitudes of each day.

It is self-propagation, natural and autonomic, and why
despite all the havoc that governments would wreak
the poor are survived, the nation is fed
and we wake up each morning, alive not dead.

But all is not well: the commons are untended
our rivers are lifeless, our forests in ruins, the country ravaged
by culprit governments designed by law to conquer and plunder
to collateralize the nation and trade our futures
for an alternative order of Progress and Civilization
of Homosapiens re-invented in the service of rulers.

The masses stand away, we’ve seen it long enough
we know civilized society–a life of master-and-slavery
where ascendant are those who wield the most money
and thwart the law best, an arena full of warriors
aching for power with armies behind them
government is the prize, it is syndicated pillage
the laws are to hide behind, to hold people hostage

Be wary at all times, steer clear of their long arms
better lawless, apart, survivors in the wild
in the nature of us beings, Homosapiens at large.

WORRY, BE HAPPY

Satur Sulit

the trouble in theory with American democracy
is its childish devotion to the pursuit of being happy
what is happiness after all but fleeting and immeasurable
happiness at what cost would make it so valuable?
the possibilities are limited only by your creativity
whatever makes you happy is protectable activity
until you are caught for something reprehensible
and must answer for your actions if you are able
the result is America has the most prisoners of any country
all guilty of one crime, they only wanted to be happy

RICH MAN, POOR MAN

Satur Sulit

it is government’s work
to make wealthy the nation
the rich who control it
are to blame for the failure

the poor are not poor
because they gamble or drink
or have too many children
or are indolent as they say

the rich are not rich because
they don’t take risks, don’t indulge
or intercourse less
or work harder for their pay

the poor are poor because
the rich do not believe
what democracy claims
that the poor deserve the same

the rich keep them poor
because they are afraid
that the poor will outwit them
and show them the door

the poor are poor because
the rich are, well, dumb
and haven’t the faintest
how a country is run

the rich are rich
not because they deserve it
but are trapped by their money
and there is justice in this:

the poor are poor only
in what money can buy
but richer than rich
in the graces of paradise

it is truly the poor
who inherit the earth
while all money can buy
is a holiday there.