Only because I demanded them, did they build obese, inefficient &
overpriced road hogs
For
my convenience, a thousand grimly cheerful, identical quick-stops
dotted the land
To
meet my needs, old malls were abandoned and new ones built on
once-rich farmland
I
craved fats, red meat & salt so they created triple bypass bacon
cheeseburgers for me
I so
loved my bluegrass that they spewed forth packaged pesticides and
over-fertilization kits
They
imported us cheap designer knockoffs so we could discard them without
a thought
I
feared fictional faraway enemies so much that they spent ever more,
every year, on arms
We
prospered to such a degree they created the gambling industry to
occupy our free time
To
meet my demand for thoughtless convenience they put everything in
throwaway plastic
My
wants guided them to fatten cattle in filthy feedlots on human-grade
corn they could not digest
My
attention to price forced them to slaughter and process animals using
criminal factory methods
I
would not pay a cent or lift a finger to recycle so they created and
filled the Great Toxic Landfills
We
could not do without legends so they pushed profitable but non-role
model corpro-sports heroes
Our
personal savior demanded that we evangelically spread democracy –
with our divine Military
I
needed my space so they built me a giant faux ranchette on 3 acres
with a 500’ driveway
I
wanted sex and she needed drugs and love, so he found a
rewarding career as a slimy pimp
My
childish need to make noise created your comical high performance
pickup truck industry
We
loved the first sequel so much you filmed parts II-IV simply for our
movie-viewing pleasure
We
grew up craving the pus-like white bread that you handled like
automotive parts
Consumer
demand alone powered a wondrous expansion of their poisonous fast
food empires
Simple
supply and demand alone drove up health care prices so very steeply
year after year
The
people called for more sports and entertainment and shouted down the
real news
I
demonstrated that my preference for cheap bad beer well-mated with
slick & vapid advertising
It
was we calling for the shuttering of our factories and demanding
floods of shoddy overseas imports
Because
of our consumer wants, brave entrepreneurs clear cut the last
remaining old growth trees
To
satisfy our oil demand, altruistic drilling firms opened up the
remainder of our arctic wilderness
To
bring us our trendy seafood they strip-mined the entire vast seas of
every form of life
Anticipating
our love of the new, they built things to last only a single product
cycle
To
make it easy for me to keep coming back they put everything in 238
billion plastic bags per year
The
market’s clarion call for coal power meant that they need not
restore their mining sites
Record
demand for electricity forced them to desperately fight every single
emissions reduction law
Our
concern over product safety led to their illegitimate bankruptcy to
avoid paying any reparations
My
demand brought on drug cartels who killed 50000 Mexican citizens and
even more of us
For
we so loved our cellphones that our carriers charged us more than
anywhere else in the world
They
built jetskis, OHVs and snowmachines because that is what I really
wanted in my wreckreation
The
drive-thru mega-church appeared because I needed quality time alone
with my personal savior
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