Everybody knows

I awoke pissed off today. Then my Poet of music Leonard Cohen set me off to describe my emotion.

                
                 
                  
                   (I borrow a few lines from Leonard Cohen.
                        Sometime we need to learn emotion and feelings
                        from people who lived a long life.)



                                    "Everybody knows"


Mr. President.

Did you see the gas prices?
Poor people making minimum wage won't be giving lunch money
to their kids.
Will be eating ramen noodles for lunch at work.
Must decide to fill gas tank or pay bills.

"Poor cities in the USA are getting the left over."
Do you give a s**t?
The bloody rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

Gas companies made biggest profit the past year ever by sucking the last dollar and hope
from the people. The oil company sells us the oil they bought six months or more ago at highest price they can get and no-one cares..

Where are you Mr. President?

"Was the fight already fixed."
We have a rich man president?

Everybody knows.

House representatives. 435 men and woman.

I saw your budget.
1.1 billion for food and office.
2.3 million per representative to live on.

How many people have nothing in your states?
How many people are homeless?
Are the schools teaching the future of the USA properly?
Do you walk your streets and see the pain?

No equality in the USA yet.
Babies being born in the poor cities.
With one foot in the grave at the beginning.

Wars are being fought.
No-one  knows why we are fighting anymore?

Contractors got 465 billion dollars and cost of war over a trillion.
The rich man knows why.
Poor man born to serve at eighteen.
Hell of a world!
When going to war is better then to swim in the waste and s**t.


Senate.

I won't waste words on them.
I hear "here or there of them."
A group of useless people serving their needs.


       I pray
I pray to the sky, the water and the earth.
Sent wisdom to the men in-charge.
Please insure all children have food in their belly.
Please lord of life and earth.
Insure all children have a warm bed to sleep in.
Please lord.
Give opportunity and strength to the people in need.
We need a miracle.
War and hate is controlling my world.
Please sent some Angels of love and peace to assist.
We could use them today.
                             Thank you 
   
I awoke with fear.
I fear for tomorrow.
What will our children have left?
What have we done?
I hated my father for doing nothing.
Now am I any better?
I believe I did less.
Will my children despise me for doing nothing.

It is time to yell.
Write to the leaders. All of them.
Demonstrate in the streets.
Gas prices will be $4.00 a gallon.
Poor man will pay for the greed of the rich man controlling the USA.

             Everybody knows.

Does anyone care?

                             Coyote

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Author's Note

I borrow a few lines from Cohen. In the old days words could change the world. Today money and oil controlled the world. It is time we all give a shit about our world. What will you tell your children when they ask. Why are people homeless and the world so hard?

Reviews

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

Leonard is the soul of the human conscience~you couldn't have picked anyone better to open the wound from which your own pain flowed~
this is the world~ there are the few at the top of the madness perpetrating atrocious crimes against humanity~perhaps not on perceived grand levels of physical torture~ but one more insidious~ the wreckage of the human mind and the human soul~ they love to break the spine and create flexible consumers~ more and more are becoming aware of the manipulation and less and less are tolerating the injustices wrought by the greedy little control freaks~ sad to observe that here in this country we have elected them~believing/aching to believe every promise of hope and change when in the end "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely"~ your poem is a call to becoming conscious HUMANE BEINGS again~ bravo~

[Kiri Nells]

Horrific, yet truthful description of society. It takes some strength to see it all there, plain and simple in front of you. Everything wrong with our country today in black and white- great piece of work!

[Star Wolf]

The sad state of our country today. And the world. Your words are strong and we all must find hope.

[Tina Kline]

All we can do is pray and fight for our country and hope. But sitting around and letting it happen would be the worse thing. We all need to do what we can if we want to keep our country. I think you did a brilliant job on this.

[Mauricio Montoya]

Times are changing and not for the better, trying to make ends meet with no end in sight, this is a strong massage that world leaders need to heed the people are getting tired and movement for change is taking place all around the world, the people want to be heard and here in this piece I hear a voice, one of many. Excellent write.

[O!]

Anyone who loves Leonard Cohen i love!

Strong piece.........and yes.....what is this world coming to? Not only are people against people but now nature is showing us the damage we are doing too by doing damage in return.

x,
O!

[Chirinos20]

All throughout history the poor serve to make the rich richer. It is a repeating cycle. It never ends and it will never end for as long as there is capitalism. The rich always trying to get richer. There are things that can be done to slow down this process. Revolution! Such a great write you have here!

[Ruth]

I hear you love! The state of this world need not be so! It need not be in such chaos, you are completely right! I do think more and more people are caring about it though hon....it is obvious to more and more people that the wars recently are for ancient knowledge and oil! Particularly the oil.....we are entering a stage where people are awakening! I march with you love!

Brilliant poem! xx

[Priyankaabhilaashi]

Fantastic..!!! We really need to stand up for this..!!!

Great work..!!! Need of the hour..!!

[♥(heatherawesome..]

love it keep it up

[Tate Morgan]

I can rate this it is beautiful and so telling of the united states .Sad for the poor and their children what a hell of a heaven itll be when our kids inherit it