Be All But Happy

there is no time for happiness

there is plenty of time to keep busy

to make money

whatever trickles down from wall street honey

there is time to be depressed

take all the time you need to be bitch and be sleaze

ask not for time, just gripe and be grunt

be all there is to be but happy

happiness is a misery to be

for the working world

for the falsehood of political ploy

for the corporate profit

happiness is a diversion

for the dogmatic conversion

happiness is a misery

happiness is controlled

happiness is bargained

happiness is grieved

happiness is all but happy

compounded by 21st century greed

a camouflaged economic derivative

it is a derivative greed

a 21st century Greenspan gift

to spread the seed of rift

in a new globalized neo-colonial drift