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Send the rich to space.<\/div>\n
It’s their kind of place.<\/div>\n
No vile madding crowd.<\/div>\n
No critics allowed.<\/div>\n
Billionaires in flight,<\/div>\n
passing in the night.<\/div>\n
Screw the earth and taxes.<\/div>\n
They’re the new cash axis.<\/div>\n
Those who have the deepest pockets<\/div>\n
can return to upgrade rockets.<\/div>\n
Grab some friends to flush out crew.<\/div>\n
Crazy what the moneyed do.<\/div>\n
See that light up by the dipper?<\/div>\n
That’s Jeff Bezos, feeling chipper.<\/div>\n
And the one that’s going slower?<\/div>\n
Richard Branson, flying lower.<\/div>\n
Elon Musk in Tesla X<\/div>\n
says he’ll soon achieve apex.<\/div>\n
Bill Gates better get one made,<\/div>\n
or he’ll miss the space parade.<\/div>\n
Walton family’s time draws near:<\/div>\n
Walmart\u00a0in the stratosphere.<\/div>\n
Princes, dukes and shahs will fly<\/div>\n
in the fast lanes of their sky.<\/div>\n
Rumors have the monarchy<\/div>\n
transported to Mars to see<\/div>\n
if it would be too much hassle<\/div>\n
to erect a big red castle.<\/div>\n
Eventually, there’ll come the mob.<\/div>\n
Collection is their proven job.<\/div>\n
Protection from space disaster.<\/div>\n
Payback by godfather’s blaster.<\/div>\n
We, the meek, watch all unfold<\/div>\n
from our gravity foothold,<\/div>\n
working, always, for spare change,<\/div>\n
watching, shocked, life rearrange.<\/div>\n
Climate and war have no place<\/div>\n
for elites in outer space.<\/div>\n
And for those who have the bling:<\/div>\n
colonies on Saturn’s ring.<\/div>\n
Astronauts with silver spoons<\/div>\n
buying up some bargain moons.<\/div>\n
Those stranded on this big rock<\/div>\n
wait now for an aftershock.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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