The Proper Way To Fire People
[Today's News Poem by Khakjaan Wessington, June 8, 2012]
How
to fire people?
Focus
a prism of stolen light.
Fahrenheit
eight forty two
Burns
hair, gasoline, paper.
That
number, like all numbers
Came
from authority:
The
Internet. It is electrons
And
anything hot and in motion
Is
Fire, so The Internet is Fire.
The
Internet is made of stolen fossils—
Just
like The Museums, Freeways, Free Trade—
Therefore
when I fire people
I
first take their planet and pump it dry
And
coat its surface with the ocher of my profits.
Only
then shall I obtain escape velocity
And
from afar, admire the sight
Of
stars and nebulae, and Earth
Ablaze
and cloudy with everyone I've fired.
“The
day that I did those layoffs, there was an oddly cheerful atmosphere
in the shop.”
—Paul
Downs, The New York Times, June 4, 2012, 7:00
am
“The
barbarians were by this time usually corporations, often syndicates
from St. Louis, Chicago and other cities,”
—CHRISTOPHER GRAY, The New York
Times, Published: June 7, 2012
“The
earth could be nearing a point at which sweeping environmental
changes, possibly including mass extinctions, would undermine human
welfare, 22 prominent biologists and ecologists warned on Wednesday.”
—JUSTIN GILLIS, The New York Times,
June 6, 2012, 2:39 pm
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