Here, from resident song-spinner Ed Chamberlain, is something to contemplate as you gaze up at the late-summer night sky.
But don't dismiss this as science fiction. Future astronauts will need health coverage out there, and who'd want to camp out on distant Pluto without drug benefits and hefty bonuses. StarMarts and a Galactic Stock Exchange are also inevitable. Ah, to bravely -- and profitably -- go where no corporation has gone before!
-- Gray Hunter
Grab for the Stars
Reach for the profits,
Oh, this is our creed.
There's no greater motive
Than corporate greed.
We've plundered and pillaged
The world of our birth,
Til nothing is left
But a desolate Earth.
We've mined the moon empty,
And started on Mars,
And when we're done there,
More planets are ours.
We'll conquer the planets
That circle our sun,
And when they've been ravished,
We've only begun.
We'll spread through the Galaxy,
Like locusts we'll feed,
As we carry the banner
Of corporate greed.
We'll grab for the stars,
And we'll spread like a weed,
Through space that is endless
As corporate greed.
(Now seriously, would you want that species in your galaxy?)
by Ed Chamberlain
Written August 2009
For OVFF Songwriting Contest of 2009
Theme: Reach for the Stars
Also see, Ode to the Great Right Hunter at:
http://www.licopac.org/licking_county_issue_pac/2009/04/ode-to-the-great-right-hunter.html
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