Being Modern: When Everything is Monetised, Life Just Gets Murdered

Living and dying in profit-driven hell

Modern life and money

Work in tandem

Service with a smile

Is worthy of a tip

Along with coffee sips

Relationships go awry

As all gets weighed up

For the Indigenous peoples,

Land was a common good

Now even a room with a view

Gets monetised

And lovers get high, flashing

Blood-stained diamond rings

When mindless thugs and murderers

Are praised, biopics made

And the best brains of the ‘developed’ world

Design weapons of ever more deadly force

At our wedding feasts,

We’ve seen death by drone,

How many are woke

And how many exist in a Netflix

Sugar and drug induced haze?

For the starving millions, they don’t care

Robbed us blind, caused us famine

Now let white on white go a-bombing.

From selling to all sides

Someone’s making a killing