Wicker Men and Mycelium

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fruiting bodies
rare and luxurious
break through
from the underside

roots and mycelium
a hidden highway
of filthy lucre

flaunt the mylar
shimmer and glint
of only imagined
wealth

fungal musk

I don't mean it that way
I am fan of mushrooms
they do good work

scent and dose
nurture and death

there is no amassing
the undefined and expanding
a universe not captured
by appetite and sense
by gritty digits

we all want a piece
of the showy braggart
that escaped and minted
the terrain and air

its a sacrificial offering
for the one who did not
fit through the EYE
of the needle

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watch
him burn
in the sun
to golden
twine

a caricature
of the wicker man
for the dispossessed
somnambulists

to shake their fist at
and dance around

Rumble link to Russell Brand episode

(Fair use image utilization)

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Seems to me Elon Musk is often used as a wicker man, Russell.

Held up for sacrifice by the even richer but not as famous, foundations and firms of conglomerate wealth, agencies that have real and liquid wealth, as well as unrealized gains. All those people just below the billionaire stratosphere ... who all together make EM and Bezos look like you and me. People who make up the agencies who can influence monetary policy and manipulate markets and currency. As you go on to describe the situation, it is clearly a banking and political issue and not the fault of newly-arrived industrialists and Silicon Valley techies ... who I bet if you secretly polled would tell you they feel pushed around a bit. EM does NOT always play nice with the dominant narrative; he has a habit of letting the cat out of the bag. He is a little more forthright than they'd want.

Make the super rick pay tax on unrealized gains; so must the average person. There go our retirement investments. Indeed why not tax unsold land as it increases in value; make everyone homeless and landless? Given the rise in property value, it wouldn't take long before we had to force just about every home owner to sell and who would now own these properties, it wouldn't be EM ... that is for sure. Going after unrealized gains is a sneaky power grab, designed to penury anyone who cannot weather their way around it. Don't know or can control what is coming.

If we really want to TAX the rich, then it's well and good to do it with sales taxes on luxury items: all those cars, jets, expensive trips, clothes, etc. Tariff the sky and luxury services. User taxes.

Attacking a man like Musk really does result in an attack on his workers (well-paid manufacturing and engineering jobs) and companies. It makes Ayn Rand seem prophetical and I personally don't like that at all.

Basket Maker

will you walk barefoot
through the tallest of tall
late summer prairie grasses
weave a gilded and open cradle
lay your autumnal treasure
store-up your bounty

harvest with generous hands
distribute warmth through the lean frigid

Basket maker ...

will you pluck by the stem
long roses and harvest the thorns
tempt the unaware masses with fallen petals
craft a sharp crown to adorn a wicker man
sacrifice in flames the separated other
to satisfy the cruel arctic spirits
hide charred remains with a sleight of perspective
pray with bloodied hands to outlast the winter

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