Cynical Or Criminals Casting Stones

We are being taught what is not important "Follow your Hear- a... your money or time is money." We are being taught an illusion Disconnected from the land that feeds us Keep building more buildings More highways, more factories, more trains Never mind about producing food We'll eat the cement and steel How many teachers will leave their job As the youth runs wild Parents have television raise their kids Teacher appreciation is lost Mrs. Bright a sixth grade teacher Received a pen and cookie from administration when she smiled, her students gave her a look like, "WHAT?" She would have been happy with a "Thank you," She didn't get it, Neither do the clowns in Washington The bailout rewards GREED And punishes self-reliance Common white-collar criminals run our country They ought to change Orange prison jumpsuits to black business suits It just seems more appropriate Wall Street's been invaded by stingy suffocants The banks have privatized their own money while leaving yours in a paper shredder Or some overdrawn offshore account The jails are over-crowded with petty drug users and homeless In some sort of government scam To advance political careers And funnel untraceable dollars into their own bank account. The real criminals make the laws It's not that they don't want you to use drugs They just want you to use, their drugs Zanxax, Zoloft and Propecia While Gabe Grant is Serving two to ten for growing a plant And Ronnie a homeless man in Waikiki Was locked up and they threw away the key We know not what we do We look but we don't see Now everybody's pointing fingers Next you'll want to cast the stone at me By Joseph DeMarco