October 7, 2010
-
Let Them Eat Tar
The time of our collective innocence has almost expired
Along with the promises of those who have always lied to us
Those cunning pols and their supporters
The moneycrats nefarious in their deviousness
Who trampled our dreams and flung them
Into a common ash-heap - a dry dead dust
Darkened and opaque - a deceitful greed
Now congealed and blackened by false promises
Life’s savings held for ripened after-years
Pauperized
Now old age
Has become an unwanted pitiful welfarism
Our dreams unfulfilled – Our lives unraveled
Duped dismantled destroyed
Similar sinful liars back then too –
Just as today - Killing people is good economics they preached
Almost 70 years since those sly bottom-feeders shipped us out
To save the republic they said - theirs first then ours
Wars are very profitable and create lots of jobs they said
With Rosie turning out tanks and planes instead of cars
But near-children were thrown willy-nilly into an unimaginable maelstrom
Kids barely outgrown their tar-chewing days
Tar stripped and gouged from between granite cobbles
Of neighborhood streets
And they're still doing it to us
Once... he swears he heard one of those plundering plutocrats proclaim
“Hey… To hell with them... That's capitalism... If they don’t like it…
“Let them eat tar!”
Comments (15)
OMG! You cannot see my tears! This is such a poignant poem, so full of helpless pathos. To think that we are still living it.
My friend, this is an incredibly beautiful poem, crying out to the multitude to hear and see the ravages of an unnecessary war.
I wish I could recommend it ten times. But your site is not allowing me to recommend it even once. Alas!
Thank you Dr Z for your kind remarks... but I do not understand your comment about not being allowed to recommend this to others... I have marked the edit page as "public"... Isn't that enough?
I agree that the post is public. But xanga is going through some problems, and some sites are not allowing people to click on the little red heart to recommend. I tried it again just now, but it goes to the top of the page. I am going to put a pulse up and give your link to this post. I want a hundred people to read this poem. It is incredible beautiful.
I have posted about this poem. I hope many of my readers will head your way. Have a great day and beautiful weekend.
I am glad I was guided this way this is awesome
This is beautiful.
The symbolism of children chewing tar is incredibly poignant. Well done.
I've been listening to NPR compare the legal fallout from The Great Depression to what is happening now. This poem reminds me of what I've been learning in these broadcasts.
Yes. I so perfectly agree with the view point of this wonderful poem!! Awesome!
I tried to recommend it too - to no avail! grrrr!
@ZSA_MD - I thank you so very much Dr Z... I have received many kind comments and hope it registers with people who might be moved to correct some of the injustices many of us who care have suffered through and are still suffering... I was on the school board of our 5-town district in coastal Maine for 17 years and place the blame on the stranglehold the two national teachers' unions and the DOE have on the educational system which prevents local boards from getting rid of bad teachers and installing a curriculum which inspires students to study and question and achieve... What we have now in charge of our classrooms, are for the most part, expensive baby sitters...
Could we require that your poem appear before every political advertisement on TV? That would be enough to provoke some thinking!
@christao408 - Nope, not able to recommend it still. I notice that some lucky ones have rec'd it. I wonder if the problem is with my puter!
I love your suggestion of allowing this beautiful poem to appear before every political ad on TV. Excellent suggestion Chris.
Well said friend!
"Duped dismantled destroyed"
@SisterMom1954 -
@murisopsis -
@quodmenutriut -
@throughthinking -
@DistantShipSmoke - Thank you all for your kind comments... I hope you read my response to Dr Z as to why the failure of our educational system has so much to do what has occured during the years from WW2 and is still happening today...
@christao408 - Thank you for your comment... I hope you read my comment to Dr Z re: how our educational system has failed us and is responsible for the mess we are in today...
Comments are closed.