Casablanca Trade Off

Humphrey Bogart on Fair Trade

 

It’s no good trying to be noble
It doesn’t take much to see that the problems of these little people don’t amount to more than a hill of coffee beans
In this crazy, fucked up world...

Of Fair Trade/Slave Labour
Offshore sweat shops and plantations
In the underdeveloped, ‘post’ colonial nations
Corporate growth that Empire yields
The commandeering of global commodities
And the conquest of the oil fields
Still trying to be noble?
FIEND!
You can pay more to show that you care
So that the peasant populations of
Here- There- Everywhere
Get a little bit more of the smallest of shares
This is how Big Business plays fair
Branded, labelled, so that you’ll know
People were paid for the crops that they grow
Clear conscience
Ethical consumption
Consummation
Still f*****g the world 
(Although  the honeymoon is well and truly over)
Over and over
Again and again
High street prices rocket- the C.E.O’s still up their profit
The turnover will not, cannot, be lost
Workers of the world are united in paying the corporate cost

They’ve got a job to do
Where they’re going no one can follow
What they’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of.
But if you’re good at being noble
You will see that the problems of these little people don’t amount to more than a hill of cacao beans in this crazy fucked up world
So speak no evil; hear no evil,

see....................?

Here’s looking at you starving kids

Author's Note

Experimental plaigerism!

Reviews

[Poeticpiers]

a wonderful rant unfortunately all too true

[Katherine Wyatt]

"Still f*****g the world
(Although the honeymoon is well and truly over) "

Wow .. this floweth over with truths...and so well written....

Love that.. experimental plaigerism...a successful venture!

[Legion]

Plaigerized well. Love it. And such truth within.