The Blankest Cheque

Grim specter you keep throwing my way

Threat of the endless other keeps empathy at bay

This isn't me.

I wanted the most for the greatest (whatever they call that now)

They wanted it all for the few & they got it somehow

Settlers in denial, amusing ourselves to death

The Blankest check we ever wrote

they cashed with a populist noose tightening around our throats

as we laughed detached at our favorite show

this time knowing right where it's going -

The camps go up, the borders slide

& there's no place on earth to hide anymore

We let it through the door

it turned round and sealed it off

Now the gap it creeps, our doubles speak

We pick a side, devolve to tribes

and lose all sight of the greater fight

You're gonna to be so tired of winning.