Entropic Relationships

When in the past I have felt 'owned'
I never knew which came first-
the jealousy? Or the lies?
Whichever order they arrived in,
the result remained consistent-
a sinking spiral where one of them
fed into the other to protect both,
which ended the death of trust.

Post-Modern Consumerism

How did we get from what was once
a solid cash economy to an imitation of life
where objects seem to float even as we are sold them,
only to lose most of their value the instant we own them?
How did we get to a place where the whole point of selling
is to create debt; that is the most profitable way of making money?  

Selling And Being Sold

'Heroin is the only product you sell people
to, rather than sell to people'.-William Burroughs

He was discounting methadone,
the antidote to heroin dependency
which Mr Burroughs never escaped alive.

Dependency and selling conflate  acutely well.
Marriage is one state that people are sold into, as dependents.
Many feminists argue that women
were and are 'sold in marriage to men',
as if they were mere property.

In arranged marriages both partners
are sold into marriage long before the event takes place,
to the benefit of the the tribal elders
who claim control the young as reward for their longevity.
That the young are always young enough
to be manipulated, unawares, is the point.

Slaves are sold people too, and like drug deals
the transactions in which they are sold
are often reinforced with lies and violence.

For all who conflate being sold to
with luxury and civilisation, wishing
is the beginning of the sense of not having,
which is what leads to us all being sold.