The market for the future
always appealed to the many,
whilst selecting the few
-those best fitted for it all along.
A long time ago
the future was driven
by different monotheisms
until The Heavenly Future
could be owned by only
the most bloodthirsty
and most triumphalist
of all the faiths.
That was the technology of war
creating ever newer choices
by which to divide peoples,
reduce peacetime economies,
and destroy once rich
and vastly varied landscapes.
Nowadays the currency of the future
is not time in Heaven,
as promised by religions.
Now the future is bonds and stocks
that are bought and traded,
at astonishing speeds across the globe.
There the bond relates to the raw energy
by which many people lead insulated lives
using materials extracted from the earth
in a fraction of the time
that the earth took to make them.
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