the economy

'the dream is over
what can i say'

i was thinking
i should buy a gun soon.
who knows how long before
people need to start stealing
what the greenbacks won't.
it's not so easy to watch your country fall apart.
you mostly want to reject
the notion that anything bad
can happen in paradise,
especially in your paradise.
the thing is, it was
right in front of our faces the whole time.
so we blogged about it
and complained and the most
radical amongst us
went to protests or followed
ron paul like a prophet.
still the billions were spent everyday,
the billions we can't even imagine and
the war we can't overstand
were bought by all of us
in our failure to act as any mass of
enraged citizens should. we were
given outlets to plug inlets into
and that was all we could really ask for
being so horribly desperate.
don't worry
nothing will taste as sweet during the storm
as the water trickling
down the vines of the rubble
that was our reality.