YOUR MONEY COUNTS

Just one good, old American vote

They promised, was all I would need,
But that was back in the good old days
Before good old American Greed.

 And now I’m allowed to spend millions

To buy who will represent me,
And you, my friend, may spend millions too,
They say it’s equality!

Democracy’s now just an auction.                              

The Supreme Court’s too dumb to see,
When the Kochs spend a billion on their guy,
I need a billion to disagree.

©2015

SWEATSHOP DEMOCRACY

Democracy feels like a giant rock

That I push up a steep, steep hill.
I DO work hard and play by the rules,
But I’m pushing…pushing, still.

This rock gets harder and harder to push,

It’ll flatten me, now, if I stop,
And a happy group of well-off folks,
Is laughing at me from the top.

A lifetime of pushing this rock up this hill,

With never a bit of slack,
And now I find out, those folks at the top…
Those bastards have been pushing back!

 ©2015

WORKING CLASS

Too proud to beg,

Too nervous to steal,
Too stubborn to starve,
Too angry to kneel.

“Workers arise!” seems too quaint a phrase,

For fighting this ruthless war,
When the corporate cats are so fat-ass rich,
And the wage-slaves so church-mouse poor.

© 2012

MAKERS vs TAKERS

Longer hours and shorter pay,

And we take it, take it, take it,
Shorter fuse and a longer day,
And we take it, take it, take it,
Shorten the leash and they yank, yank, yank,
Stretch us on the rack, and they crank, crank, crank
And the wealth flows up to the precious few,
Who take it, take it, take it to the bank.

© 2013

HOLY HARDBALL

Religion's not nice these days,
Showing its medieval ways.
A mean, nasty fungus
Is spreading among us
To prey instead of to pray,
And the Golden Rule's so yesterday.

 ©2015