Wednesday, December 20, 2017

No. 230: Perpetual Demotion (re: Marx)

The effete elite
manipulate mobs,
the hoi polloi
everyday slobs,
in whom they inspire
anguish and ire.

These mobs so exhorted
fear jobs exported
and long to see
neighbors deported.

They are moved to support
leaders renowned
for keeping inferiors 
(like themselves) down.

Down where,
working for hire,
the lower classes 
tend to perspire.

Down, down, down
their whole life long
where they belong,
amidst the throng.

Down, furthermore
where workers and peasants
dare not aspire
to be in the presence of,
nor seek to compete with, 
the effete elite.

[corrected: 12/20/2017, 12:12 pm]