The New Barbarians

The new barbarians
sitting in their hedge fund offices
instead of longboats
wearing the latest armor
of designer clothes
shirts worth more
than a week's pay
of the person
who sells them
that cup of coffee,
talking power politics
instead of wielding swords
burning down the world
not with torches
but with lobbyists
rhetoric,
mass advertising
news programs
designed
to bubble up the hate
while they
count the riches

Who will they plunder next
when they have raped and reived
the entire globe?