The Consumer Society

West, your hearing is blocked,

West, your vision is obscured.

The consumer society’s heavy veil

has covered your hearing, 

covered your sight, your soul.

Your civilization is smoking ruins,

your words, mosquitoes that fly

over the swamps of your industrial production

carrying fever, lies, hypocrisy.

Five hundred thousand dead Indonesians

concentration camps in Europe,

exiles beside the Acropolis.

But you don’t hear,

you don’t see.

On a 1969 model, 

you ride at 200 kilometers per hour

towards your death.