Sonnet: ''O Liberty''
O Liberty! Where have you gone? We need
freedom from the lowest minimum wage,
from working two jobs that make our feet bleed;
from the long nights and weekend shifts that age
us before our time for less than ten dollars
an hour. What BS is this (when the top
one-percent of this country's most elite
rich use the courts and ordinary cop
to oppress us and own fifty-percent
of America's wealth)?? O Liberty,
what happened to 4th of July, Seven-
teen Seventy-Six!? Where's Prosperity,
and our American Dream? (We know where:—
it's all in stockholder's portfolio shares!)
Copyright © Ngoc Nguyen | Year Posted 2021
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