In wealthy world, adults wear white button down shirts
the way teenage girls wear flip flops in summertime;
ordering extra is oxymoronic, as there is no other way,
spending more on incidentals than the average person
allocates for investments; even casual conversations
include references to interest rates, liquidity, term and
time, for time is money and money makes money; the
inside of a dollar store has never entered their visual
repertoire; there is more fresh food available within
arm’s reach on a given day than poor people will see
within a month, and the fear of being hungry has never
entered their minds; yet for all these jarring differences,
there are at present enough resources for every human
on earth to enjoy the benefits of affluence every day for
the rest of their lives, as our government spends more
money in one week dropping bombs on foreign nations
than it does annually on its entire domestic population;
if we had the political will, we could easily allocate one
million dollars to every man, woman, and child in this
country and eliminate American poverty in a single day
without skipping a beat or putting a dent into the ongoing
war machine that has no point and produces zero return,
but this will never happen because if there were no more
have-nots, there would be no more haves, and they will
never allow a world devoid of domination, for time may
be money, but money is power, and power is everything.
