Lao Sue And Other Poems : Caitlin Johnstone : 9780645022148 : 0645022144 : 14 Nov 2022 : Collected poems harvested from the fertile soil of decaying illusions. From the book: Crazy They'll make you poor, then shame you for being poor, then push you into a job that keeps you poor at a billionaire megacorporation. They'll make you crazy, then shame you for being crazy, then sell you the cure for crazy at eighty bucks a pill. You're a failure if you can't make ends meet on impossible wages at an impossible cost of living with a worthless degree you will never pay off no matter how hard you work while advertisers blare at you about your insufficiencies, while the news man tells you war is normal, while Hollywood tells you the system is working perfectly, while armed police guard grocery store dumpsters full of food from the hungry, while executives go on five billion-dollar space rides for fun, while you live surrounded by screens that tell yo