The Verse is Yet to Come.

Aeppli's Last Supper: Let them eat Fake News.

The Dachau Ballet: A Pivot to the Past.  

As the world does its dance on the head of a pin,

Like reporters, it does so with plenty of spin;

Hence every plan for methane abatement

Is shelved, or cancelled and filed in the basement.

For now.

Some economies open, others re-shut

Leaving oil supplies in a permanent glut.

It's stored in caverns and ships, in barrels and cans, 

To sell at higher prices is everyone's plan: 

Cash Cow.

But the petro Powers are all fueled by debt, 

Their economies based on how much they can get

Per barrel for their hard-won energy reserves

But Covid has thrown them one vicious curve.

And how.

The leaders' plans have made it all but formal,

All we really need do is reset back to normal,

Once this virus, this bug, this germ most obscene

Is conquered by science with a killer Vaccine.

From Dow.

Do you remember the fall of the USSR?

An implosion faster than deposing the Czar,

This, we told ourselves, was The End of History,

Exactly why, well, that's still a mystery,

Moscow.

But the bright shiny future the Triumphalists envisioned

Ensuing events have heaped with naught but derision.

Russians by the millions lost housing and jobs

It looked much like the situation in our nation of slobs 

is now.

So, what went wrong ... is not something awry?

Or if this were the plan, aren't you wondering, "Why?"

Or hadn't you noticed Communist China prosper

Even as the US seems to have lost her

Know-how.

"Let's raise communist peasants from their rural lair,

And plunge rah-rah capitalists into bleak despair."

So the US Red Party moved our industrial base

To where another Red Party could make its populace

Kowtow. 

To constant surveillance and One-Party rule 

Re-education camps designed to be cruel,

While back in the good ole USSA,

They cut vacations, pensions, healthcare and pay.

Somehow.

So while the Bosses speak out of both sides of their mouth

The lives of the workers continually go south.

For Capitalism is, as it turned out to be,

But a system of graft and exploitive piracy.

Called "Dow".

The yellow vests are gone, there's no more Hong Kong,

The Freedom they promised has all gone so wrong,

Instead of limiting my freedom where it impacts you,

It bequeaths on the Keptocracy the "Freedom" to redo

Dachau.

Levittown Dachau.