[Newspoetry] Carnival Pro Status Quo

[Paul Kotheimer]

Carnival Pro Status Quo
	--a design for direct action

Let there be, today,
In every major city
a demonstration by the Status Quo:

A phalanx of beurocrats,
their faces masked in blank plastic gazes,
their suits pinstriped with the mastheads
of the newspapers of record,
their power ties made from the Yellow Pages,

are accompanied in lockstep
by their military menservants,
their fatigues camoflaged 
in a patchwork of hundred-dollar greenbacks
AMEX gold cards, petroleum company logos,
their aviator sunglasses mirroring 
the new world order they impose.

Let them march the streets
with placards reading "BLAH BLAH BLAH"
and "violence protects my priveledge"
and "I deserve it."
Let their parade banners be
enormous dollar signs,
and let their sandwich boards read,
"The media will tend the sheep,
Citizens go back to sleep"
--and let them chant the same.

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