Holistic remedy



This is the world that man made.
These are the ills that plagued
the world that man made.
This is the doctor prescribing the pills
that treated the ills that plagued
the world that man made.
This is the banker with tellers and tills
that backed the plants and labs and mills
that manufactured all the pills the doctor
gave to treat the ills that plagued
the world that man made.
This is the general with trumpets and trills
who made the war that saved the bank that
backed the plants who manufactured all the pills
the doctor gave to treat the ills that plagued
the world that man made.
Here is the mother with all forlorn
whose one and only child was born
to die in the war the general made to save
the bank that backed the plants that made
the pills the doctor gave to treat the ills
that plagued the world that man made.

This is the angel who blew his horn
to comfort the mother all forlorn
and fired the general and closed the banks
and shut the mills and scattered the pills,
retired the doctor and cured the ills
and ended the world that man made.

ARLEN WILSON (1988)