Rhinecarte
IT WAS LOOKED AT AS A SMUDGE IN THE FACE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT
WHEN THEY BOUGHT IN THE TITLE THEY SAID IT REPRESENTED THE VEIWS
AND VALUES OF THOSE WHO SUPPORTED THEM
WE COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY MEANT
WE WEREN'T THAT FAMILAIR WITH THEM.
BUT AS THE DAYS AND WEEKS WENT ON, WE BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND
WHAT THESE PEOPLE WERE
AND WHAT THEY THOUGHT OF US, AND SOME PEOPLE
WHO LIVE AND THINK LIKE THE US THEY DESCRIBED!
THEY SPRAYED STUPID ON THE THE WALL
AND BEGAN TO DO INTERVEIWS, WITH PEOPLE
WHO SAID THEY WERE WORTHY OF CONTENTION
BUT THOSE WHO HAD FOUGHT THE FIGHT, AND STOOD IN LINE
AS THEY SAY, DIDN'T BUY INTO THIS NEW WAY OF THINKING.
THESE MEN WANTED TO BUT IN LINE,
AND HAVE THEIR NEW BELT REPRESENT THE NEW VALUES OF CONTENTION.
THEY SAID THEIR CHAMPION WAS NUMBER ONE.
AND THEIR MANAGERS WHEELED AND DEALED, AND GOT PRIVELGES, FOR THOSE WHO THEY CONSULTED.
SOME GUYS GAINED WORTHYNESS BUT THEIR POSITION MADE THEM, THE KINDA GUY YOU WOULD KEEP AWAY FROM YOUR DAUGHTER.
MAYBE NOT THE KINDA GUY FOR THE CHURCH SOCAIL YOU MIGHT ADD.
MAYBE A DATE DOING YARD WORK OR FIXING THE MUFFLER.
IT DIDN'T SIT RIGHT WITH THOSE WHO WORKED HARD FOR THESE POSITIONS, AND IT DIVIDE THE LOYALIES AMONG THOSE WHO WERE ALREADY ESTABLISHED.
IT DID ONE THING, IT BOUGHT OUT THE COMPETIVE SPIRT IN A FEW GUYS WHO SOME SAY HAD SEEN THEIR BEST DAYS.PINKY FINGERS AND EXPSENSIVE CUPS
DON'T MAKE THE COFFEE GREAT. IS IT A SHOW, ARE DO THESE MEN WANT A WORLD OF WATCHERS, TO STAND BEHIND THEM,AS THEY BECOME GREAT, OR WATCH THEM SHEEM , SHAM THEIR WAY TO THE GOLD.
Copyright © Allan Terry | Year Posted 2018
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