late stage capitalism

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the most in vogue trend is how we use a word to describe
the end of everything we know. "late stage capitalism" 
has become an outfit. some wear the word like haute couture,
others hobble it together without tact & there are those who 
dress it like neon. it's the latest statement piece to throw into
the conversation. Ruffles, lace, and late stage capitalism.

I do not care about the conversations people have or the intellectual
wars that create fertile grounds for narcissistic personalities.
they way you string words together to make hollow epithets make you
look like the emperor in his new robes: naked, pompous and ignorant.

I hate that a free market is so poisonous that we cannot pursue
collective wellbeing without someone advertising a shiny new thing.
I hate that justice is a struggle and, to the dismay of our ancestors,
it's become a wealth-mongering hustle. What happened to the 
power of the people over the privilege of the pocket?
did it die when the cops killed our children?

what I hate the most is that people do not yet understand
how an economy that needs exploitation to flourish set a platform
to villainies consent and bodily autonomy

what I hate the most is how policing abortion means prisons will
be built to house birthing bodies that couldn't choose their fate

what I hate the most is how prison labor gives
Fortune500 companies profit for pennies on the dollar

what I hate the most is how demonizing trans bodies
and trans-affirming families will turn prisons into 
generational interment camps. The camps that separate
migrant families will become replicated and reinstated.

what I hate the most is how the oligarchs believe 
the conceivable cure for late stage capitalism is more prisons

some use this term as if it makes their tongue so fancy
I speak of it with grief, knowing that we are a country
reliant on concentration camps to revive a dying economy

foolish emperor, bite your tongue and remove your invisible garments
it is better to be naked and learning from the people already breaking chains