Corporate mergers

Microsoft buys Activision; Kroger buys Albertsons; AT&T buys CNN, HBO, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT; Warner Bros, Disney buys Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox; Google buys smaller things, Comcast buys everything else

Another merger, just as the prophet 

Marx predicted.

   

Capital never sleeps. 

In continuous motion, sucking all 

its forked and flicking tongue 

can bag in this craving 

 for omnipotence 

over nations, over new planets.

 Soon over Black Holes.

And we the ruined shops and souls 

are just their fuel.

And we the stars that twitch

then vanish over their event horizons, 

are torn into indivisible bits

where once we were whole beings 

who created all manner of angels and spheres

to save us from all manner of hells 

but who are so frail

before a force

that swallows light itself.