October 18, 2013
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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
Our savings held for ripened after-years
Pauperized
Old age has become an unwanted pitiful welfareism
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 of course 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… That’s capitalism… If they don’t like it…
Let them eat tar”
Comments (1)
Well-written, I liked the last line a lot.
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