Over the edge

The America I came home to in 09

   What's all this talk about a big fiscal cliff

Most folks have already been thrown off of it

       Into an ocean of high interest s**t

They take a fiscal stick and beat you with it

 

 Credit card offers coming out of their a*s

 They said it's like getting a never pay pass

 With all that interest you'll never get past

We should have known it was to good to last

 

  All those mortgages so many signed on

Were concocted by a deranged leprechaun

  Rubbing his hands and waving his wand

        Abracadabra another loan con

 

What's all this weird a*s fine print about

 You'd need a tax lawyer to figure it out

    What am I signing off at closeout

 Is Ebenezer Scrooge somewhere about

 

   Just close your eyes and sign on the line

      It's OK pookey everything will be fine

   Don't worry yourself if you get in a bind

        We have the perfect lending design

 

    We spent like ADD kids in a big candy store

Went back to the bank and said gimmi some more

   Bad waters were rising on a bear market shore

   We all had amnesia this had happened before

 

     Then came the great depression of 2008

      Quick sell that house oh s**t it's to late

       You'd be better off if it sunk in a lake

     Betting on nothing but a numerical fake

 

     Life saving investments vanished into a mist

       As a golden retirement turned into a myth

     With black stockings of coal left to play with

   Conversation soon turned to the slashing of wrists

 

      The banks started foreclosing on homes again

     Cause they wrote the rules with an invisible pen

        They thought it would all work out in the end

           Economics is no place to wish and pretend

 

        Bailout money flew all over the map

      Just to get the big boys out of their trap

  They told the rest of us to hike our boot straps

        While the rich CEO'S kept all their crap

 

  We marched down on wall street all in a huff

Asking why the rich kids got to keep all their stuff

     Their bailout money proved plenty enough

    and the working tax payer still got the rebuff

 

    Makes you wonder if it's even worth trying

   With the big money greed and political lying

  They spin so much crap that isn't worth buying

    When the middle class dream is steadily dying

 

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

Will it get better? All we have is hope

Reviews

[That_Girl]

Rhymes are sharp and witty. Nice.

[Baby Ricochet]

Tank you for reviewing Over the Edge girl. THis poem doesn't look like it's going over to well. Political satire's tricky

[Baby Ricochet]

Tank you? Great, now I have a speech impediment

[That_Girl]

You know, there are some things I don't agree with you on, politically speaking, but that doesn't hinder my ability to rate the poem. I try my best to review in an unbiased manner. Your thoughts and opinions are yours and I respect them.

Hahah

[Tai Ryens]

So true and sad, but presented in a hilarious as f**k way. Once again, I'm amused.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you for reviewing Edge Tai

[Michael G.]

Good solid poem relating the way of the world as it is today to many... including myself. Thought we would be good. Wrong!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you for reviewing Edge Mr G.

[Mic]

Well said, Ric. Politics are big business. $2 billion dollars spent by someone other than you and me to elect a president. The middle class can't afford a voice. We choose from those they hand pick for us. Nothing can change.

Very well done!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you for reviewing Fiscal cliff Mic

[RachelReaper]

get better? heh. doubtful. I'm counting on the apocolypse before that happens.

[Baby Ricochet]

thank you for reviewing Fiscal cliff rachel.

[Jo March]

SO so clever, I don't know much about American debts etc but I f*****g love your political poetry! It's just so amazing!
The best part was 'beat you with a fiscal stick'

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you for reviewing fiscal cliff Jo

[Marie]

The government has messed things up, I won't deny that. But a lot of people going in debt to be crap they don't need doesn't help...

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you for reviewing Fiscal cliff marie

[KAOlmsted]

"Cause they wrote the rules in invisible ink..." Love it. This was/continues to be a fiasco...luckily I never felt any of it--we lived on a boat that we owned outright for the majority of this ricockulousness...but I can understand the frustration that was born from it. Great write, Baby...perfectly scathing, just the way we like you. ;-)

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it.