by Saira Viola
Elegant thugs and Escort girls
With boudoir secrets to sell the world
Celebrity sleaze and corporate greed
Sold for six figures to a magazine
Designer labels and fast food for sale
Grab a life from a bargain rail
A chemical peel or lipo plan
You need wrinkle cream and a perma tan
Chop out the coupons for meat and greens
While hemorrhaging your credit on a Plasma TV
Guys standing in line
Begging for overtime
Trying to save those nickels and dimes
Foreclosures and debt killed the American Dream
The heart of a Nation ripped at the seams
Breaking news is of a starlet’s shoes
While hospitals close and there’s queues for food
Is this the crown of Democracy?
Global hunger and mass illiteracy?
Barbie doll smiles
And Promax highs
Admen hawking consumers bile
Adult chat rooms and cyber cocks
Mortgage your home to buy a wedding rock
Stealing water from London streets
Protest your innocence on CCTV
It’s a tapestry of hate a canvas that bleeds
What the hell happened to Society?