Steel tombs stretch skyward like fingers clutching the throat,
Cookie-cutter plutocrats construct mass disparities.
Flood plains of desolation – graffiti buffed to dull grey,
Sanitized sanctions sabotage our sanctuaries.
Outpriced, outcast, down and out on the outside
The Golden Gate of discordant estates
Tech castles in the clouds uproot us from our homes,
Entitled, empty suits drag the dregs out to the streets.
Money talks so loud, lucre’s din mutes inequity,
Downtrodden masses forced to grovel at yuppies’ feet – techie scum.
Outpriced, outcast, down and out in the outside
The Golden Gate of discordant estates
A whitewashing inferno conflagrates culture into smoke.
Inclusive rhetoric slips from forked-tongues of vulgarians,
Arsonist nouveau clones with exorbitant livelihoods.
Cultural vultures gentrifying urban carrion,
Sifting through the ashes of our vanishing neighborhoods.
Progressive ghetto – locks its doors and bars its gates.
Privatized metropolis – a prefabricated caste-state.
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