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Kakistocrat

K k kakistocrat
There's nothing wrong with that
No one can fault a man for doing what he's got to do
No one knows how hard it is to be you
The headless horseman
K k kakistocrat
Narrate this poem
Not really
A friend
You can call in the middle of the night
Are your lights out too?
The executive in you knows you shouldn't even want it
In my own apartment I can listen to Charlie Parker
In my own apartment I can listen to Charlie Parker
Living standards
In late stage low wage bills unpaid take what the doctor said
K k k capitalism
I observe my surroundings
Evaluate my options
Odds of survival
Metamorphoses required
What must I become to outrun
The Kakistocracy
Human history
Nero's fiddle man
Made up memory
Plant pictures in mind's eye
Use the language against itself
Until the referent is free floating
The gold standard gone
Smoke rings by the fireside
We all act like we're put upon
In the end it's all
Obscenity
the magnificent powers of the super rich
To auction off reality
Endless empire man
One true story
The corpulent towers of titans and brokers
1 in 11
Billion human beings
One economy
One source of energy
Tools that could sustain life used to destroy it
In an open exchange of ideas and cluster bombs
We used to pray to the sun and we may yet again
Kakistocracy
The first true democracy
Nostradamus man
Play monopoly with your kids
And still lose
Blame the bank
Blame the government
Make things worse
Troll farm the counterpunch
Nonsense works
Let us remove all pretense and replace it with gold leaf everything
Let us strike a blow to the foundations of parody
Couple and uncouple
Bind and unbind
Trample and hoard before the trampling hordes
Different theories around scarcity
The logistics of truly exhausting the supply of anything
In a closed system
A negative feedback loop
A sine wave
Reversals in polarity
We used to worship the sun and we may yet again
As the faithful come to fear their savior
It's the bureaucrats that follow on his coattails you should worry about
If you're inclined to worry about
Kakistocracy
A dollar a day
In terms of solutions
Who is deciding what the problems are and how to fix them?
Hypocrisy had a clear meaning and definition
Was recognizable in a crowd
Replicable in the lab
Lousy to live with but good to know
Plenty of others
Dying to go
Make history
Kakistocracy
Wrest from the clutches the clenches
Of cheap gangsters in pinstripes
Buying and selling debt
Commoditizing dreams and failures
Bankrolling silent coups
And the secret city that's tracking you
Through your best friend
Talk to it and it talks back
Cut it and it bleeds wire
Rearrange a grain of sand and everything changes
Hope never dies it just switches hosts
The sense in which we are all born as ghosts
In every state we will ever visit
In every time we will ever know
In every possible outcome of every conceivable scenario
Social security
Yeah you're on your own man
He'd do anything for anybody is just something people say on camera
You don't know him and you're not anybody, you're you
Monumentally fucked with plenty left to lose
To the kakistocracy
The endless misery
of the Kakistocrat

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from Empirical Guestroom: SIGINT Demos 2017​/​18, released November 8, 2018

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Matthew H. Welch Baltimore, Maryland

Songmaker, Singer, Guitar Player, Producer for SIGINT. Formerly of the Aviary and Pedge. Poetic Rock and Roll From A Future.

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