Golf While America Burns
© Surazeus
2025 04 05

The young woman eager to be a mother
sews dresses for her child soon to be born,
but, while shopping at the grocery store,
she miscarries and collapses in anguish,
so she is arrested and charged with murder,
and Midas plays golf while America burns.

The old man and woman in their quaint home
who worked forty years and raised honest children
stop getting social security checks
and are called frauds when they call to complain
so they freeze homeless by the highway bridge,
and Midas plays golf while America burns.

The lawyer who handles cases of fraud
protests when his law firm capitulates
so he is framed for securities fraud,
tried, convicted, and imprisoned for years,
then his wife and children drown in a flood,
and Midas plays golf while America burns.

The agent who works to protect consumers
from unfair charges by financial banks
is fired and marched out by security,
so he flees to the mountain wilderness
when bankers send assassins to kill him,
and Midas plays golf while America burns.

The playwright who applied for a grant
to present plays about difficult lives
of people abused by white privilege
shuts down his show when the grant is withdrawn
and flies to Ireland when his home is doxed,
and Midas plays golf while America burns.

The economist who writes articles
discussing complex system of world trade
denounces tariffs that twice caused depression
and will lead to economic collapse,
then cries as the stock market tumbles down,
and Midas plays golf while America burns.

The soldier who works with global allies
to support Otania union of nations,
protecting our national security
by blocking cyber attacks on state computers,
declares he will not help invade Greenland,
and Midas plays golf while America burns.

Millions of people in thousands of cities
assemble in public squares with calm purpose
to cry out with one voice, hands off our faith,
protesting destruction of institutions
that support the People so we can thrive,
and Midas plays golf while America burns.

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Orpheus produces documentary showing how Midas plays golf while America burns till the People work together to build Zarathia on the ruins of faith.

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