The Cold Warrior

You have to let the thinkers think

The dreamers dream

The speakers speak

The schemers scheme

The wolves among us feast on sheep

The shepherds teach them how to reap

The harvest of community

The plenty space for unity

If being free is what we want

Equality must be the need

Prioritized beyond our profit

Mass-producing greed machine

Still colonizing everything

Then selling you the diamond ring

The social contract theory bomb

The buffer states that look like Guam

And from the satellites they beam

That perfect family fifties feeling

Reaching for your credit card

With isolation’s sex appealing

Movie star aestheticism

Gaping black hole fetishism

Whispering it’s holiest

Pale ghosts of fascist soviets

Still letting all the thinkers think

The dreamers dream

The speakers speak

The schemers scheme

As money sorts the in-between