I Am Become The South

Oh my god I think I'm Cuba or possibly Tanzania The realization hits me bluntly Oh my god they've colonized me Castro: be virgin sound Nyerere: a screenless life Oh my god, they are extracting all my precious raw materials Suharto, Batista: I am become the south Ao now the old dialectic has been resurrected in my subconscience Between traditional and neo-colonialism in impressive synthesis So the forced participation in the sewer of commerce Is unrepresented taxation and the insidious beckoning Of product and promise is a goddman IMF loan Henry Ford plays Cortes in the last of the great twentieth-century authoritarianisms Stalinism and fascism make way for the great dictatorship of the corporation OOh my god we've been convinced that the stranglehold of corporations Can somehow safely coexist with our notions of participation The unions: the Elgin Marbes The billboards: Victoria embankment Emilio Zapata was not the hand that changed the channel But the hand that switched off the whole goddamn TV