Christmas Consumerism

Sparkling holiday lights shine in the eyes of communal shoppers, looking for the perfect gift this multicultural season of materialistic love languages.

Each dollar pocketed by mega corporations is spit back into the right-wing agenda to annihilate the misunderstood and divergents of mainstream tradition.

Apologies and bribes wrapped under 

the Yule tree, decorated with tinsel and maxed out credit cards to fund the habit of purchasing love. 

Plague and sickness trample the shoppers to the economic death of the American Dollar.

Surplus amounts to the theft of wages and cutting corners in the business pipeline.

Debt-riddled to provide glory and gift

as the three wise men gave to the newborn baby of Bethlehem, penniless

and born in what is now a site of genocide. 

Cold and shivering, there are children without a thread on their back, 

living in modern mangers – asking for food instead of favored toys they desire. 

On the opposite side of the financial spectrum there are palaces and mansions of the slave-trading

and war-profiteering billionaires ruining the Earth in which lies the eleventh hour of humanity.