Is it duller today, or is it just me?

$1 A Day

The guy starving, often enough, away

In Africa, living on one dollar

A day, lives that way because Westies say

Both should live that way, overall. What’s more,

Westerners tend to, lamely, blame those they

Plunder to assure themselves an easy

Life, taking 60%, still, today,

So I’m told, with 20% for they

Who play according to West’s game plan,

The chosen few, and 20% for

The rest, starving often, enough. The man

Who survives on water and very poor

Food lives an existence which is rude, crude,

Stewed, more than tempted to intrude, interlude

Of rapine and opportunity we,

As Westerners, and now Easterners too,

Encourage with tools of war which will do

Maximum damage to those locally

Living, surviving, in service which we

See, often enough not, in the West, to

Be internecine warfare, and caused through

No fault of the Westies. Reality

Check, as they say in the U.S. of A.,

And one sees rich and poor and very poor

There also. What’s more, were there no war in poor

Africa, those there could afford a way

Of life wherein they thrive well enough for

Themselves and build up from a central core

To a level more or less close to that

The author enjoys among the Westies,

Viz: poor of the rich. Probably twice what

He indulges his self on, steadily

And securely. So, were moderately

Living, by no means deprived, enjoyed by

Most, humanity might coast forward, free

Of unnecessary conflict. To try

This thesis in summary on the

Whetstone of truth, Indulgent West + Poor

Afrique = weak ethical bases

For action whose only attraction for

Both parties: perpetual war and weak

Bases for further action one could seek

In moderated wealth (note I say not

Moderate), more than sufficient health and

Length of days which plays, like a record, not

Backwards, but in the groove, towards an end

Equally well to be depended on.

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0: A sequence of three near sonnets, of Shakespearean-Petrarchan-Shakespearean style, with the beginning of a further Shakespearean.

1: “60% of the world’s wealth is controlled by 6% of the world’s population.”

2: “60% of Australia’s wealth is controlled by 6% of Australia’s population.”

3: “6% of the world’s population live in the United States of America.”

4: “60% of the GDP of Africa is expropriated to use in other continents”.

5: “10% of the world’s wealth is controlled by 1% of the world’s population”,

This last being an approximation: lately it has increased from 8%+ to 9%+,

and rising.

6: “10% of 60% is 6%”.

7: “Westies” is what East Berliners termed those who lived in West Germany, but

here used to indicate anyone living in the West (sic).