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Ireland's political and cultural magazine
July 2021 63
CULTURE
When this world,
and the money with which
you bought it, have been abolished
and all the broken things fixed
and people like me are in total control,
you’ll be allowed come and go
from your gated community of the unnecessary
so you can see how great the world is without you.
We’ll even employ a retired supermodel
to bring you your tea
and, when the time comes, change your nappy.
And buy you a board game
which lets you pretend
to again buy the world
with money that was once real
and absolutely does smell.
And give you a calculator so you can work out what
the corporate tax rate was in places
that no longer go by that name.
And leave on your bedside locker
a note pad in which you can draw pictures
of the spaceship
on which you’ll make your final escape.
By Kevin Higgins
The
Unnecessary
People
