Sick Economy Blues

the coffee table sings chaotically
with strewn books, last Sunday's
newspaper and unopened mail
while economists lack harmony
as out of tune they wail
of our fearful globe’s
surreal travails.

and more and more wherever I read
of the day’s crazy unfolding events
the odd word “oligarchy” is used
to describe our nation,

is our dear democracy
dissolving in an acid barrel
of systemic fraud
and inept leaders,
plundered and stolen
piece by piece,
eaten by a marauding
cancerous greed
in this never ending
medieval dream?

I'm far from ready
to acquiesce to governance
by an elite few,
nor to fairness and truth
to say "farewell"!