Scott Campbell Poet Free verse

Those and Them

Those, who work this country,
ride private planes and limousines
or other cars for hire.

Them, who make the country work,
drive big rigs and pick-up trucks
and actually perspire.

Those, on their high-cost carbon commutes,
make jokes about them.
Looking down on flyover country,
those ugly jokes are spewed out loud;
Complete disdain for the bovine crowd.

They, being them, just keep on working
and loving to live life.

Those, whose schemes victimized them,
and caused so much anguish and strife,
are amazed that
They, being them,
Forgave.

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Arlene Rubenstein April 8, 2022 at 5:10 PM Hi Scott. Love the simplicity of your work. I’ve just started submitting. Hope you’ll read my one poem! Arlene Scott Campbell April 8, 2022 at 9:31 PM Hello Arlene, Thank you. I did read your poem and liked it very much. The "bee sting" phrase reminded me of a villanelle by Sylvia Plath. It is worth looking up.

Bill Baker April 8, 2022 at 10:54 AM Different worlds, they do live in. They choose what they want and like but refuse to allow us to choose what we like. They actual think everybody should be like them and worse yet, everybody is like them. The ego has won again. Thanks for sharing your thoughts through poetry, Scott. A poet friend in Texas, Bill