Best Stockholders Poems
The War Is Over, You Lose BluesI watched the T.V. late last night,
and watched corporate Nazi's try to explain
their plight.
Cheshire, dollar grinning C.E.O.'s
justified moving from the cities
that paid their bills.
Tax breaks, easements, incentives
and local blood were not enough
to keep them in the neighborhood.
I watched the T.V. late last night,
heard the catch...
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Categories:
stockholders, parody, peace, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Greed (Part Two)Our Supreme Court
Just allowed corporations free rein,
Unlimited power to effect our popular elections.
This regardless of,
Where stockholders may live or stay,
Corrupting the whole process of our Reps selections.
What this means to you,
Is the next Representative you'll see,
Will win because of something they're willing to support
Which has...
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Categories:
stockholders, politicaleducation, voice, may, money,
Form:
Narrative
To a Believer In Corporate KindnessCompanies lust after profit.
They do nothing - that is, squat -
if there's a chance of not
making something off it.
You see a soft heart beating.
Try being an executive
whose yields are down, and has to live
through a hostile stockholders' meeting....
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Categories:
stockholders, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Trickling Down TheoriesThose of us living in the USA
too often hear Republican capitalist dogma
of The Great Trickle Down Theory,
in which those who have most
must get more first
so they can hire more who have least,
although perhaps not with living wage
and preferably without health care if at all feasible,
to...
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Categories:
stockholders, abuse, depression, earth day,
Form:
Political Verse
How Much Is Too MuchHow Much Is Too Much?
Poem arranged by Elton Camp
I can’t say it’s true, but from what I hear
A certain CEO made 137 million last year
It’d take over 9,000 years at minimum wage
Which makes some workers feel outrage
And in the case of a worker at median...
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Categories:
stockholders, business,
Form:
Rhyme