Day 14 Prompt: Provoke

Title: Fourteen

Foresight is a wonderful thing but
Our problem has always been that in truth.
Unforeseen circumstances rarely exist, if only we looked, we'd see that.
Right in front of our noses, lay an abundance of evidence, with which you can easily provoke
Twenty-first-century economists, simply wave a declining balance sheet, and you can hear them choking.
Each epoch has been the same, the world has gone insane
Everything's driven by noughts and crosses and they are
Now thinking of celebrating Easter by nailing eco-warriors to crosses, believing themselves to be Roman Gods.