Help me make sense of this thing called progress that you say we are
making
Take me with you as
you run all the oh-so complex numbers of your pathetic spreadsheets
I want to fully
experience the passion of your flag-waving, gun-toting workers
Let me feel their
heartfelt patriotism and deep pride in bulldozing one more
unprofitable meadow
Explain how the same
smash and grab formula works identically from coast to coast
Tell me of your vision
for a future…beyond this next development
Help me understand why
your plans always seem aimed at producing more filthy gridlock
How is getting rich
quick and getting out fast yielding our planet a sustainable future?
Give me the wonder
drug that removes this dystopian vision from my mind
Do you really prefer
cheap modular strip malls, concrete and asphalt to trees and farms?
How does it feel to
replace a climax forest with low-bid, manufactured housing?
Help me understand why
building cheaper and faster really makes things better for us all
If you really are
leaders why do you piously intone that you only give the people what
they want?
How did the pursuit of
happiness twist into this wanton, greedy, institutionalized
devastation?
How good does it feel
buy their land after your speculation has jacked up the property
taxes?
You claim to lead us
on, so please just stop for a moment...and tell us where are we going
Help me understand the
master plan behind your next quarterly profit projection
Help us going forward
as we try to build upon your deconstructionist legacy
Why do the young feel
empty and alienated, suffocating in your sterile planned communities?
How can a lasting
society be founded upon short-term, individual blind greed?
Paint me the bigger
picture that I might draw comfort from your self-professed competence
Show me it’s not
just about your fragile ego and the striking of meaningless Big
Deals
Explain how God
created man apart to set us upon the world like starving mad dogs
Why must your
expensive, over-fertilized landscapes look so very artificial?
Rationalize and defend
this hideous half-urban, fake-rural sprawl
Why must we totally
shatter balanced ecosystems just to build places to live?
Show us the bright and
lasting vision behind each one of your fabulous but disposable works
Help me understand the
pride you feel in your ever-increasing, cancer-like metastization
Outline the moral
principles underpinning a life given over to real estate speculation
Prove that pursuing
greed auto-magically brings a happiness that is worth other’s dying
for
Show me how it’s
always morning in America in your vision of an ever brighter future
Tell of your boyish
pride in ordering about the huge trucks, mighty bulldozers and dirty
men
Don’t you just pave
the way for Wal*Mart and McDonald’s to finish the evisceration?
Then, you make even
more money selling off the failing small family businesses
When there’s nowhere
left to build must they all become ‘Sales Associates’?
Say again how very
much you love this place even as yet more ground is broken for your
profits
Where are you as the
filthy illiterates you hire are leveling the young boys forts?
Isn’t Las Vegas
actually the finest example of your true beliefs and your real
legacy?
You gushily pimp
natural beauty but ignore the noise and traffic of the sprawl you
create
Explain how
irresponsible quick money serves your True Conservative
vision of a proper society
Why must the same
tacky shit be ‘Coming Soon’ to every brand new street
corner?
Help me to see myself
in this mirror which you have shattered all over the broken ground
How do you sell off
ancient wetlands destroyed forever in a month with a bright smile?
Are you demonstrating
your deep wisdom with these new clothes and cosmetic surgery?
Why must you look out
over endless roofs to newly-cleared prairie and salivate with
anticipation?
Describe how your
grasping avarice is simultaneously patriotic, religious and
fulfilling
Do you feel safe
hiding behind the perverted gospel of man’s greedy dominion over
the earth?
Tell of your earnest
but frustrating efforts to find dependable and cheap but illegal
labor
Teach me how you
routinely fail to mention known deal-breaking issues to prospective
buyers
Grant me the
unquestioning blind faith in your own avarice that fuels your febrile
industry
Show me how you plead
ignorance and forget to get back to me on important questions
Bring me up to speed
on the new extra charges presented straight-faced at the hurried
closings
Tell me about the
deserved survival of the greediest and smarmiest and the most
ruthless
Write down all the
details so that those to come can marvel at your wisdom...and avoid
it
Make the simple case
again for jobs and money overriding their supporting natural systems
Create the soothing
street names that support the mirage of our instant family values
Get your indoor tan,
watch your diet and keep your tinted windows all the way up
Ignore the oily burden
that your new parking lots flush into the streams you had channelized
May you find the real
meaning to all your deals, as you lay dying in your own wastes
Yes, and may they
bulldoze your graves, as well, making way for more new convenience
stores
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