Consolidated Pain Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Effective it is.
And at a cheaper expense,
To have mindsets convinced...
A suffering economically to do,
Is no longer individually experienced.
But more a corporate choice,
Under which, collectively, we all are ruled.
To know it as a fact eventually...
Politics and religious conflicts exist,
As a business only those extremely wealthy...
Can afford to choose what they do and wish,
To empty everyone's pocket of even a penny to get.
And those racist with their petty biases to inflict,
Are victimized regardless of the flags they raise...
Or where they decide in churches to sit in pews,
Scrutinizing 'who' amongst them 'deserves' to be...
Highly favored.