More Or Less
One of my favorite sayings,
one you may have heard before
Is from a movie that's set in the Depression era,
it's my personal verbal encore
It expresses my exasperated feeling
of being powerless and poor
That I would worry a lot less,
if I thought you worried more
Politicians always check the public's pulse
to find out what's goin' on
They always want the inside take
to know exactly what is wrong
But when it comes to poor people like me,
they really could care less
To them I'm just another unproductive voice
suffering from imaginary duress
They don't care about my trivial concerns,
like what am I goin' to eat
Or if it's really cold outside,
what am I goin' to put on my back and feet
They always say things are 'bout to get better,
and there's gonna be plenty of jobs galore
But I would worry a whole lot less,
if I really thought they worried more
Their economists say I'm making my woes
to be more than they really are
But in my 'hood all the stores are closed,
and to shop, I have to to travel very far
Let me give them a sad statistic
about the crime on my city block
911 is a lottery loser's joke
when you're in need of help from a cop
The rich say I'm just cooking up another scheme
with my assorted problem du 'jour
But I would worry a lot, lot less,
if I thought they worried, really worried more
Like the character in that movie,
who didn't use any sugar-coated finesse
Just putting into words all my frustrations,
how I feel about things more or less
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2016
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