State of the Union

Fight oppression while we oppress you

We’ll stop the killing if we kill, too.

We can raise the ceiling till you are sealed in.

Laws are written with those Biblical sins.

Logic is lost with every lavish law-book.

Pork barrel profits to empower the crooks.

War and greed fulfill their limitless needs

As funding gets cut so that we can’t read

All of their deeds obscene--

Everything now unseen.

We now declare WAR!

On the aristocracy.

The people take back

Ol’Fashioned democracy.

The government is falling

Into our hands.

Power of the people’s lost

Unless they stand.

Police the planet while you’re impoverished back home.

Sell your people out to those who own your loans.

All the world’s a stage and you fancy you’re directing,

But the script’s been leaked and foreign critics are dissecting

The structure of it all

And the inevitable third act fall.

We’re becoming laughable

As our leaders laud their own.

The public is lamenting

Cuz this story they have known.

We know that we have seen it all before.

It’d be nice to not to have to see it again.

History repeats itself, or so they always say.

It doesn’t have to I suppose, if we all wind up dead?

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

"History repeats itself, or so they always say.
It doesn’t have to I suppose, if we all wind up dead?"
History does repeat itself. Funny how our leaders don't know history. Your poem told the truth on many subjects. I told the people if we don't pay attention. Your world will change and it had. Always a pleasure to read your words. Thank you for the outstanding poetry.
Coyote