Poems of the Week

The One Percent Solution

by Steven Kent

“Relax, everyone: Elon Musk has a mantra to make the climate crisis go away”
The Guardian

Big solutions? Here’s the pitch, guys:
Trust our so-enlightened rich guys
Casting off bourgeois behaviors,
Messianic self-made saviors.

Hurtful, how they’re called hubristic;
Who could be more altruistic?
Odd, though, how their famed acumen
Rarely helps one hurting human.