Globalized!
Industrialized! Sanitized!
Pasteurized! Homogenized!
Don't realize
Leader's lies
Under smoggy skies
Don't get wise!
Just super size
Your extra fries!
Get your discount buys
While the planet dies.
Don't empathize
With people's cries.
Don't scrutinize
Tears in eyes
Of the marginalized.
Don't analyze
Or criticize
Or mobilize
Don't act surprised
When they brutalize
And terrorize
Those who uprise
To stop their enterprise
Just close your eyes.
Believe the lies.
Globalize.
--Tom Swiss
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