Make Like a Salmon

Food doesn’t matter

Ticking death bomb

Individuals falling apart

To keep the species together

Baby boomers could learn

From salmon

Will they be legislating

From death beds?

Machines whirring their ugly songs

Pumping them full

Of expensive whatever

Just to keep the dimming lights on

And the hand signing away our future

Five more miserable minutes alive

At any price

At any cost

If this is how individuals survive

The species’ future is hopelessly lost