Hoodwinked by Branding

We bought it

Hook, line and sinker

Sinker being the operative step

And we’ve been taken

Down to the bottom 

Down into the deep

Believing in the wrong book

Business school cant 

Street corner soap box rant 

We’ve been took

By the “I”

And left without a “We”

Thinking we could make it

If everyone believed

Each One was the savior

If we would just buy

Buy buy buy buy

We’ve been had

What wasn’t quite good enough

Has turned out to be bad

Bad bad bad bad bad

Hooked in the gill slit

Not knowing life requires oxygen

Even if you’re a fish

Apple my eye

Snake be damned

The oldest trees are olives

Oil you CAN eat

We’ve forgotten how to farm

To read the secrets of water

How to live together

We’ve fallen for the tower

Of the monumental maniacal

Power of the Brand of I

The sword we cannot live by

The road that is a lie

Triumphant.

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