A slow suicide called life and state sanctioned.
It is the condition of the carceral society.
Paranoia has become a proper state of mind.
And there's a despot around the corner.

Omnipresent surveillance.  Society of control.
The cattle are guided by passageways like electrons in a closed circuit to the killing floor.

Exchange market value of currency against convenience.
The stock that won't drop.
However, liberty and security are not interchangeable in a war machine that never stops.

Just to stay alive
we have to nose dive
eat dirt
give blood?
what good is good
when even feelgood
is no good.


No way?
no way are there thieves
on the highway
and
my right of way
denied me.

Dream on
it's all gone
and to thrive
we have to
nose dive

minimum hours and minimum pay
a minimum life maximising the day,

say,
can you spare me a dime?
you can ask them for nothing
and they ain't go the time,
you're in the way
except
when it comes down to
minimum pay.