empty pockets? again or still?

timetotightentherichfuksbelts

empty pockets?

again or still?

we find ourselves

emptied pockets

clarence thomas

midnight dockets

we don't

need con-gress

we need pro-gress

make your list

check it twice

the environment

a throw of the dice

we need to make 

budget cuts

why don't we start

with your lazy butts

what? defund congress

supreme court too

and while we're at it

how about some bank bailouts

pork barrel projects

fancy state dinners

dod wasteful spending 

congressional health insurance

junket fact finding journeys

outrageous salaries

if minimum wage is good enough for us

time to tighten the belt

tax the richer than you and i

close loopholes giving 

money grubbing corporations

tax free years

no oil or coal

subsidies

tax the pharmaceutical empires

as much they screw us on price

the list goes on and on

there is so much fat

we can trim

we have earned our medicare

social security

benefits for vets

we can help the poorest

give shelters and food

medicine

mental health services

funding for vets

as we promised

there is no excuse for this country

to ever find itself

being held hostage

by far right extremists

repeal the tax cuts

on donnie's friends

return corporate tax rates

charge stock market profits

to hell with them

that choose to move

to other countries for cheaper costs

the krap they make 

isn't worth 

our time or monies

mint a trillion-dollar coin?

hell

make a bag full

won't solve our problems

but it will look good

 for now

until the world figures out

it's always been

play money

always has been

always will be

we are so 

goddamn wasteful 

a travesty

$10 for burger & fries

are you kidi'n me?

we are the problem

you and i

we continue to get

more than we need

hoarding treasures

gathering too many

toys

always out with the old

in with the new

life is not a joy ride

and leave the mouse alone!

 

Reviews

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

“we have earned our medicare
social security
benefits for vets

we can help the poorest
give shelters and food
medicine
mental health services”
Here! Here! Words of truth my friend. “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement walls”……abomination exists when compassion ceases to. This is not the country I knew. And Levon Helm…yes..I was fortunate enough to see and hear him in Woodstock, NY, where I spent wonderful times and made wonderful memories at La Duchess Anne Inn. Heard John Prine and Simon and Garfunkel in Central Park. Heard the real America once. I hear it in your words my friend. When did the mic drop on all of us?..Kudos and fingersnaps.

[keith]

we did it! they didn't care!
they were in chare! we weren't!

passion became a crime
our voices silenced
as they say ... long time comin
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
they are starting to learn and listen
MAJOR MIC DROP !

[keith]

what an honor it must have been to know maynard g krebbs, kerouac, cassidy, fifth gallery
snap snap!