Going cheap by Benjamin Zeppaniah‏

A dollar head shouts ‘Buy’,
A pound head shouts ‘Sell’,
A shopkeeper’s shouting ‘Capitalism will eat itself’,
A prophet’s asking ‘When?’

A caring father on the futures market has just
condemned
A family on the West Coast of Africa to five years
hard labour.
A speculator called that a result.

Now here’s a New World order... Large Burger and
fries please.

It’s business as usual.
Earthquakes cost money,
Dams damn the needy
And Palestinians don’t count.

Now here’s a New World order...
One oriental woman
Supermodel skinny
With
Blonde hair
Black girl bottom
Surgically modified nose,
And genetically modified shit.

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