Golf While America Burns

Golf While America Burns
© Surazeus
2025 04 05

The young woman eager to be a mother 
sews dresses for her child soon to be born, 
but, while shopping at the grocery store, 
she miscarries and collapses in anguish, 
so she is arrested and charged with murder, 
and Midas plays golf while America burns. 

The old man and woman in their quaint home 
who worked forty years and raised honest children 
stop getting social security checks 
and are called frauds when they call to complain 
so they freeze homeless by the highway bridge, 
and Midas plays golf while America burns. 

The lawyer who handles cases of fraud 
protests when his law firm capitulates 
so he is framed for securities fraud, 
tried, convicted, and imprisoned for years, 
then his wife and children drown in a flood, 
and Midas plays golf while America burns. 

The agent who works to protect consumers 
from unfair charges by financial banks 
is fired and marched out by security, 
so he flees to the mountain wilderness 
when bankers send assassins to kill him, 
and Midas plays golf while America burns. 

The playwright who applied for a grant 
to present plays about difficult lives 
of people abused by white privilege 
shuts down his show when the grant is withdrawn 
and flies to Ireland when his home is doxed, 
and Midas plays golf while America burns. 

The economist who writes articles 
discussing complex system of world trade 
denounces tariffs that twice caused depression 
and will lead to economic collapse, 
then cries as the stock market tumbles down, 
and Midas plays golf while America burns. 

The soldier who works with global allies 
to support Otania union of nations, 
protecting our national security 
by blocking cyber attacks on state computers, 
declares he will not help invade Greenland, 
and Midas plays golf while America burns. 

Millions of people in thousands of cities 
assemble in public squares with calm purpose 
to cry out with one voice, hands off our faith, 
protesting destruction of institutions 
that support the People so we can thrive, 
and Midas plays golf while America burns.