President Eisenhower in 1961 spoke of a Military-Industrial Complex that had great influence on government policies. Such influence palls, however, compared to the intrusive influence on personal privacy exercised by the present day Marketing-Security Complex.
The Marketing
Security Complex Poem
They know:
What you think, what you buy,
what you eat, where you go.
They know.
If you're broke, if you toke,
who'll get rich, when you croak,
no joke.
They know.
Been in jail, drink too much, cheat on taxes?
In the sack, your act don't, spawn climaxes?
They know,
Oh yes.
They know.
More than friends, more than lovers,
more than drinking pals or kin,
they have ways to find out
where you are and where you've been.
Makes you angry, you complain.
"For your protection," they'll explain;
"We will make you better shoppers.
We're the country's new crime stoppers."
They know.
You know.
How they peer.
And they don't care.
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©2012 Michael Silverstein
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