Instant Kharma

Never Mind a tale of everyday death and destruction

Instant kharma’s just a fucking excuse here for appalling behaviour.
All day, all of the night every single time.
You can’t unsee it when you open your eyes.



Think of it this way:

If you behave badly and nothing happens to you 
then obviously you didn’t do anything wrong 
because otherwise you would get punished for it, 
cause kharma, right?

You did but you didn’t so obviously you didn’t and now so you won’t.
So you now have carte blanche to do anything you want 
at any time cause hey it was the other guy that died not you.
‘Karma huh?’
Gosh he musta done some real dirty deal that one.


Never mind that you just cut him up into an oncoming road train,
never mind you been blocking the ambulance while he stiffs on the crossing.
oh traffic jam? 
Shit, well we all get to sit in it what’s so special about that one hmmm?
karma huh?


Never mind your bus just exploded killing every child in it while you ran for the hills.

Never mind that faulty gas connection you never checked for three fucking years.

Never mind your company didn’t slump test the cheapo concrete and the condo block 
fell into the street during a minor earthquake.

Never mind your company construction crane fell onto a train full of commuters 
or the flyover you’re building collapsed onto the six lanes blacktop below.

never mind never mind never mind

The only time you ever get canned here is if you wide mouth someone,
a bigger fish than you and then oh boy, watch out, they eat you inside out for 
breakfast, protecting their ‘reputation’.

Face being all, don’t sully the big boys reputation, don’t ask for responsibility, 

it was just fucking Kharma, get it, got it, good girl have a banana!

Other than that it’s carry on regardless of consequences as long as they don’t apply to you…

And they never do 

‘Never Mind’

Artist
Thanongsak Pakwan
The Way of Water

I don’t suppose for one minute that this country is any better or worse than any other in the world currently. It seems to be a twenty first century malaise that is circling the globe.
No one takes responsibility any more, just shame faced bald headed lying and corporate justification.
Sadly that seems to have percolated down through society where we are to the individual level.
When people are forced to work three jobs a day just to survive then it’s less a case of pure selfishness and more of self preservation.
Hustle and bustle have strengthened the ‘fuck you’ muscle where once empathy lived.