IYKYK

You say six seven.

But let's focus on one ten.

It's a noble cause. 

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Song of the Damned

SONG OF THE DAMNED 
(It helps to sing it...)

If you bleed by the gallon,
 then they’ll bill ya by the ounce.
 If you take too long to pay,
 then the legal team will pounce.
They demand their pound of flesh,
 they want your arm and leg…
 They’ll go for all you have
 no matter how you beg.
 
Soooo the poor are thus made poorer
and our life is thus made worse 
and all so the shareholder
can overflow his purse!
We're damned for all we do,
We're damned for all we try,
We'll be damned when it’s over too
cuz they'll bill us just to die!
 
The energy company is 
Raisin’ them rates again,
and it’s the working family man
that has to take it on the chin
They don't care bout me and you
long as they get their bottom line,
and they'll damn us to the darkness
if we short ‘em half a dime...

Soooo the poor are thus made poorer
and our life is thus made worse 
and all so the shareholder
can overflow his purse!
We're damned for all we do,
We're damned for all we try,
We'll be damned when its over too
cuz they'll bill us just to die! 
 
Children told to borrow money,
 encouraged by their schools,
 to “Seek degrees and good careers”,
 otherwise they’re fools.
And Poor ol mom and dad,
 wishing their kids some better fates,
encourage these “student loans”,
 thinking all will turn out great…
 
Soooo the poor are thus made poorer
and our life is thus made worse
and all so the shareholder
can overflow his purse!
We're damned for all we do,
We're damned for all we try,
We'll be damned when it’s over too
cuz they'll bill us just to die!
 
The cost of livin’, what it is,
We can barely afford our rent,
 utilities and groceries,
 hardly leaving us a cent.
Then those bankin’ bastards
demand what they claim is theirs,
 Oh, We’re living off borrowed hope,
while they live off their daddy’s shares.
 
Soooo the poor are thus made poorer
and our life is thus made worse 
and all so the shareholder
can overflow his purse!
We're damned for all we do,
We're damned for all we try,
We'll be damned when it’s over too
cuz they'll bill us just to die! 
 
Uncle Sam is raising taxes,
on what we make and spend,
he gets us coming and going,
and what's it for again?
He says it’s to help the people,
to help elevate the poor,
but what he doesn't give to foreigners,
he uses to fund another war...
 
Soooo the poor are thus made poorer
and our life is thus made worse 
and all so the shareholder
can overflow his purse!
We're damned for all we do,
We're damned for all we try,
We'll be damned when it’s over too
cuz they'll bill us just to die! 
 

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A Change

A Change:

An overdue change,
a gameplan is being made,
the future starts...now

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A Morning Plea

 A Morning Plea

Coffee, do your thing:
Stir my bones, and wake my flesh,
to seize fast this day!

Farewell

 Farewell

Ad meliora
It means: Toward better things.
May they come swiftly!

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Mad World

 Mad World 

The world is mad…
              Mental, and broken.

I rail against it…
              but it pushes back.

Its madness weighs upon me
              Like concrete shoes
              on a Jersey riverbank
                             at midnight.

What passion fools have!
What convictions they have!
Yet their betters remain silent,
              Offering small words in rebuke,
                       or videos of condemnation as tokens
              Not realizing more commitment is required
                                  to preserve us from the madness.

Swirling, swirling, ever swirling!
              Like a black mist so few can see,
                              swirling around the masses
              and individuals in tandem
                            like a schizophrenic tornado cell!

Swirling and swirling until like a tidal wave
              it rushes upon the mind,
                            Breaking it…  
                                           Taking it…
                                                          and there can be no mistaking it:
                             even the soul becomes clouded and muddied
                                           with a madness that ever grows…

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A Question

 A Question

What Chaos rages
in the heart of a father
trying to provide?

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