The Comfortable Civilization I

The Comfortable Civilization  ( I )

(excerpted from my forthcoming book Verses For The People)

Moments pass

Sorrows pass

People pass away -

Every time spawns its men

And every cycle

Its civilization;

This one’s so comfortable

You would want it to last a while.

We're so lucky.

With our markets for

Metaphysics,

Multimedia melancholy -

And managers

To make the masses

With macros

Or micros

And keep

The scales of margins safe.

Ah, there are disasters

And those Manic Mondays

But relax

There's insurance too

Mediclaim and Social Security

To keep

The sagging spirit afloat.

There are ghettoes

To look down upon

For relief there’s the sky-

Scrapers to dwarf the eye '

Its a fine place to be

Finer than ever before

Everything’s new, improved

All that glitters

Is all that gold.

The heaters keep winters warm

And we’ve all but forgotten the cold -

But there’s something I’ve

Known a while

Maybe its time for you to know

The chocolate always melts

Sooner than the snow.