Para/Poem Challenge "Open"

Diddlysquat
Evanesce
Lotted
Dictate
Itinerate
Jaunt

They're saying worldwide food shortage is inevitable
'Cause more Chinese are middle class
And they want meat
(Meaning beef),
Like the West must dictate
What the world's rich should want to eat.
Meanwhile food stamps are being used at their highest rate
Since 1961, at least where I'm from,
And people are needing to buy beans
To make the meals stretch.
I ain't got diddlysquat,
But I got more than that.
All the same, I'd rather eat beans than beef.
Back in China itinerate nomads have been
Driven from the land
Because it can't support them any more
And crowded into cities where they die by degrees,
Suffocated in the lotted plains of city life humanity,
Like the West must dictate
What's really rich anyway.
Meanwhile a jaunt down my own street
Shows me more empty houses
Than I ever thought I'd see
And they're building condos by the river.
Think somebody's gonna pay
A hundred and ninety five thousand dollars
To plant themselves there?
Crazy city life humanity's leaders
Need to be kept away from the effervescence
Of whatever it is they drink.
I don't think it's champagne anymore.
Maybe it's just the chemical stink of pot hole tar
Making them mad.
Rich can evanesce in an instant.
Middle class will mean nothing
When the water gets short.
Beans or beef may be so dear
They can't be bought.
And the activists say it's still not too late.
We can turn back the clock
If everyone screams just a little bit louder,
Like the West must dictate
What the world will do.