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Double zero ... double zero Victimized homeless people in need of a genuine ghetto hero Ten ten ... ten ten K Si-ren, the metallic police attack dog is biting my wallet again Twenty twenty ... twenty twenty Trump domestic doctrine is: Americans cleaning Russian mob money Thirty thirty ... thirty thirty Politricians covering six feet deep of their hidden mature dirty Forty forty ... forty forty Bottled anger ounces of long hours worked for paychecks too shorty Fifty fifty ... fifty fifty Getting more black penitentiary time and less white justice pity Sixty sixty ... sixty sixty Pension retirement money swindled in a Ponzi pyramid poker kitty Seventy seventy ... seventy seventy Two eight zero K: yearly compounded reparation usury that the Bank of Babylon still owe to me, according to the number of unpaid years of labor free New market technology is now repackaging old slavery

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Date: 11/18/2017 8:48:00 AM
A glaring portrayal of current violation of human rights by few in power ... the same scenario here too ... I like the poem very much ...
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Date: 11/18/2017 5:59:00 AM
Another strong poem my friend. In any country politicians benefit and live off the fat of the land - the banks are laughing while the poor suffer. Human rights are ignored be it for health or anything else. The big Parma and other Corporate Giants lobby and get what they want. 'An unhealthy population is a strong economy' - besides, more people incarcerations make for cheap labor from which the powers that be make fortunes selling the prisoners made products - Slavery in modern days ...Maria
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