Economy

Economy


I may go to Armenia and look for gold or scrap iron
the country is full of hammer and sickle monuments
and Lenin on a pedestal; if I collected that stuff and
built a ship and ply the China trade, unemployed
they will be workers of Europe, but what’s the hell
as long as they can get cheap shoes who cares.

In the mountain region of Chile and Argentina there
is a fence made of barbed wire, why it’s there no one
cares to know, but these days lost plastic bags from
all over the world, come here to rest and most of them
are made in China, advertising supermarkets in Spain,
and Finland too that used to make mobile phones.

The global economy brings peace and brotherhood
if not democracy, exchange of goods between lands
what could be more peaceful? If you are a worker
and unemployed…tough luck, if you can’t even buy
cheap pair of Asian shoes, you’ll just have to wait
till wages in Europe are lower than those in China