Jeff McCallum

I try and try, but politics keep sucking me in.

Delaying the Inevitable

Life does change,

Or things at least do;

Not change you can count on,

Change you can believe in, but change none the less.

It may take longer in some environments than others,

Happens quicker in bacteria and insects

Than slow moving humans

Who change their environment rather than evolve

To meet the challenge of change.

Bacteria for example become immune to drugs

As cockroaches do to poison;

Changing and surviving,

We purchase surgical masks and continue breathing polluted air

Or move to the suburbs,

A type of economic evolution I suppose.

America for example,

Moves at a different pace,

Is more insulated from certain pressures,

Certain types of social change then say,

South Africa.

Here, in America there is more;

More resources to delay at least

The inevitable.

We spend billions on Bird Flu which may or may not exist,

Taking dollars from unstable economies like a carnival barker

Taking dimes from the rubes

While in Washington DC HIV AIDS decimates.

We manufacture in the third world rather than pay

The true price of goods in US currency.

Here there are enough reasons and resources to

Lay off a few million while

Ensuring the rest of the masses have cake or

At least HDTV built by workers without

Health care or plumbing.

Strangely enough without the comforts

Many of them are or

Soon will be lacking as

The inevitable creeps ever closer.

Rich enough,

Powerful enough,

Stubborn enough to go to

War over oil

(Thank god it’s not wheat)

Rather than evolve a product or

Change life style,

Pay the cost of this stubborn refusal to change in

Lives and today’s dollars for

Generation that may never arrive because

She feels the interest on Her

Human Capital credit card will never come due or

The whore is just waiting for the next sugar daddy of a conflict to

Balance the books;

Delaying the inevitable until

Someone’s to blame,

Saddam is preferable but

Bush or Obama will certainly do.