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THEY BUY HOUSES DON'T THEY
More scenes of posh dereliction
They buy houses don't they
Swapping occupants for petty gains
The dream of physical tenancy a memorable fancy
Try economic accommodation instead
As a wise man said if you have ghosts you have everything
New spectres haunting disinhabited facades
Where we're warehousing on the merit system
Louche vagabonds of the daydream economy
The waitlist is thousands long
Employability means buy-in
Everybody wants to have a home
Like everybody wants to win the lottery
One job should be enough
Begs another market bigamist obsessed
With lateral mobility on stolen land
I saw the best minds of my generation
Volunteering for the state during a catastrophic shortfall
And calling their conscription 'commune'
Romanticizing the most tenuous connection
Ghosted by employment
Fix your own wage spread it on toast
Sleep anywhere you want but here
Refeudalized at your fifth yard sale this week
Toes gripping the precipice of a new primitive accumulation
As the earth turns to toxic slag beneath your feet
By wartime you'll be back to work
A wheezing interval of a vast innervated machine
No grist for negation; no nauseating conviction
Even a horse has a head of its own
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Shed No Tears
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