Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Unwarranted Greed

Things you have
That you don't need
But still you seek
To feed your greed
That junk because
Your peers possess
Indispensable
So You obsess
Or just so that
You can rave
Things they don't have
You hunt and crave
Needs driven by
One-upmanship
Momentarily by
What's seen as hep
Your desires drain
Someone out there
Of what's really theirs
But do you care?
A kid who slogs
To make your jeans
For the lack of water
The slums unclean
The uprooted trees
To print your mails
A carbon roof built
Of your car exhales
But you know all this
These cliches you've heard
You deem the doomsayers
An alarmist herd
Not worth listening
So you drive down
To the mall
And the latest brown
Shades you buy
To stay in style
And heighten your sins
Overflowing pile.

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