Scarcity: Part One


When everything is means to an end
in Markets, Nature, Man, Industry
Resource scarcity is the enemy of Progress
as it eats away Money, Life, Smiles, and Work
respectively, that we've somehow earned
through the avenues of existence

Markets, Nature, Man, Industry
The cornerstones of Galactic Complexity
with multiplexural Earths populating
this understanding, maybe quite complex,
or the essence of simplicity itself
and we will discuss

Resource scarcity as the enemy of progress
for if no battery, no steam
to run the evening dreams on the radio
in a word zero is the number of this beast
and with it comes loss
of memories recalled
and the truck rusts till it won't run
for lack of parts, at any speed given

Soon Money, Life, Smiles, and Work
become irrelevant as they're replaced
by Favors, Death, Crime, and Labor
in a breakdown of vision

We've somehow earned this revelation,
because we're stupid and smart
at the same time
I am, you are
and there's ten-thousand things to confuse
our choice to floss our teeth

The avenues of existence
are the cornerstones
to run the evening dreams on radios
and memory.
A breakdown of vision happens
because we're stupid and smart
with blindspots on every horizon.