Our Bahamas

another Black country down the drain
is Solomon Kerzner beginning
to rethink his investment

Paradise Island - so near by it, all around it,
slum

oasis of wealth, of the best life has to offer,
in the midst of squalor

towers going up, people and standards
going down, going way down

going out fast - cork pulled out,
baby and the bath water,
down the drain

how do these - why do these countries fail

inundated by garbage from the First World

technological gadgets, guns,
coupled with programming,
films, shows, songs

and we think, attached to these things
we’re modern, with it, when, instead

with modernity in hand, we are being wiped out
buttons in hand to click ourselves into extinction

another Black country down the drain
destabilized, its legs knocked out from under it


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
11:38 a.m. 16.05.08