witness the inheritance that they bestow
all the scraps the enviropaths left below
while the pop. get rations and a water card
and the antisoc hide and they hack and they starve

boom-shaka-laka pounding day and night
well your eyes will turn yellow but the drugs are white
and nothing is illegal when you cannot get hurt
go to Sector 42 - jack a suit, jack a skirt

well you can chalk it up to fate
but you were really born too late
and there will never be enough
that makes it tough

well, we’re living
future shock
no forgiving
future shock
Jesus ain’t gonna save us
future shock
and not a body is blameless
future shock

in their holographic dinnerwear the bourgeoisie
eat the last jar of roe from the Caspian Sea
while the autoCADs print them out another floor
just a little bit farther from the billions of poor

the incels are buggering their rental synths
hikikomori lodgers at the Bradbury plinth
the nasties never clean out all the ports when they’re done
’cause showers are for people, not for zeroes and ones

but if they ever wake to find
what is really on our mind
we will be damned beyond repair
buyer beware

well, we’re living
future shock
no forgiving
future shock
Jesus ain’t gonna save us
future shock
and not a body is blameless
future shock

© Kurt Riley, 2019.