Comes a winter I see snowmen side stacked by side
while a false deficit chill howls through the toob
The unemployed rocket counts down to lift off
A tattered security crash catch net awaits below
Comes me up to the net with running fingers probing
stiff fibers hang sturdy low
Smiling Man says net needs fixin'
Has Suits bring scissors, knives, and flame
Comes a sharp-toothed Shark to prey on rocketeers
as they each day hundred-thousands stream
steady up the plank
Match on teeth gonna light the fuse
Blast off high
No roof to block the cold night stars
Comes the leering Kidnapper jeering with Shark and Suits
and Smiling Man
Ransom note warns demands
Extortion!
Wanting burning shredding net
No catching safety after launch fall
Greed for net!
We are Hostages
Greed for matches!
We are Hostages
Greed for lives!
We are Hostages
Comes a time transfer wealth gone by
and all held pawns barren sacrificed at the dollar alter
Long gone the net sold away
Naked concrete slows the fall
of long lines for fast flying rocket rides
to debt mountains of desperation
Comes a chance now early often can back push
the gluttonous cats fat by all us Hostages
Crashing the Gate
through
Non-Violent Resistance
('cause that's Gandhi's way)
and stop the plundering pillaging sack
of mothers' and grandmothers' minimum subsistence
Comes a day when we fight back
and then
no more
Are we Hostages