Mary Kha's quest to buy a tricycle spirals into a globe spanning regime which uses everything from propped up dictators to financial propaganda to fulfill her unyielding thirst for more.
Dane Sullivan's unique brand of dark poetry is whimsically blunt as it adopts the style of children's rhymes to explain the history of corruption and greed which underpins most of modern human society. Using allegorical comparisons, it careens through the history of labor practices, from slavery to the modern era of credit scores and retirement accounts to illustrate how the privileged owner class extracts maximum profitability out of a working class that perpetually slides deeper into debt. All while touching on everything from covert ops to civil rights struggles and the criminalization of addiction and how they relate to issues such as prison labor domestically and humanitarian crises abroad.
Why tell this all through nursery rhymes? Because sheltered children become ignorant adults.