Freddie Robinson Jr. Poet Couplet

By the Numbers

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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Probir Gupta November 18, 2017 at 8:48 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 ...

Maria Williams November 18, 2017 at 5:59 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