shiny toys

Shiny Toys Festival 2010  - http://creative.arte.tv/fr/space/SHINY_TOYS/messages/

how sad we are

grasping at these straws

that divert us from

ourselves and one another

we're wired for consumption

hardwired to be bottomless

yet all our goods

do not unite us

we're estranged from

the very thing we want

communion with others

and unconditional love

we become

slaves to desire

for there will always be

something newer and shinier

the raw materials alone

will require brutal wars

we're standing on the graves

of starving children