No department of Education
No anti-corruption
No health care
No unemployment benefits
No social security benefits
When you’re old enough to retire
No help for people in needs, no welfare
No grants or loans for college students
No housing vouchers for elderly parents
No rules and regulations for the Stock Markets
No lawsuits against criminal cops
Due to immunity, they can kill anybody in the streets
And there’s more, more will fall in the craps
Many people will die sooner, before their time
Believe me that will be a sad crime
If you want an unfriendly and dishonest America
Vote for the fascist and friends of the SAGA
Otherwise, vote for the intelligent Woman
Who will never insult and disrespect Asians
Native Americans, Black Americans
Caucasians, Haitians, Jamaicans
Puerto Ricans, Europeans
Human beings, Africans
Latinos and poor White Americans.
Copyright © November 2024, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved.
Hébert Logerie is the author of numerous collections of poetry.
You got a vote in your hand
You got human right
You got justice
You got a will
At this very moment
Everything is in your hands
At your fingertips
But you become hesitate
The candidates are strange to you
Political campaign is only a glimpse
Canvassing is unbelievable
You have no reference
There is no evidence
All along you're blind to politics
And the surroundings
You're only interested in
Everyday challenges
Life is challenging
Survival is hard
Sometimes
No matter who is on the stage
Life doesn't change much
Life has to go on tough
There is no choice
Let's the court and justice
Go after them
Prolonged justice is only
In the court
In front of God
Hey, democratic candidates –
Forget campaigns, forget debates.
Just toss your names into a hat,
Let Nancy pick and that is that!
The only way to win the fight
Is for all people to unite
Whose goal is simply to prevent
A reelection we’ll lament.
So Joe or Bernie, Liz or Pete,
Amy, Mike – accept defeat
And join behind the party’s pick
But do not wait – just do it quick!
The months are slipping by so fast
But well before the votes are cast
If we unite, we’ll have reclaimed
The torch from He-who-can’t-be-named!
I need to break out, I need to break through,
It’s all about me and squat about you.
Lord let me shine, put me to test
Show them my mettle, my very true best.
I’m in this to win, don’t stand in my way,
I’ve always been great to make voter’s sway,
I’ll do and I’ll say whatever I need,
My ultimate goal, they follow my creed.
These joker’s assembled, the best of the bunch
Little they know I’ll eat them for lunch,
And then when its done, let’s throw them a bone,
Make someone my Vice, a worthless sweet home.
You’ve got to get tough when Trump’s the end goal,
A perilous journey towards a wild shoal,
But history knows but one winning hand,
So here’s where I make my desperate last stand.
People's leaders wish to be
Their country aspire to save
Justice for all they declare
Deception's road only pave!
(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
25 October 2016
The candidates for world dominance
The contenders who want to sit on the highest branch on the tree of power should
not be elected because they want it too badly
Theirs are a grab for dominance for its own sake and if lucky the book of history,
the part where leaders are remembered, we know Saddam Hussein, Stalin and Hitler
they too are remembered by history and given enough time will be Admired and
books will be written in their defence
The contenders talk about trade meaning high finance, not a factory that produces
products and employ people, they mean the banks, money lenders.
They fear ordinary people but keep us enslaved by debt we should take a stand
as they do in Palestine, who are spied upon day and night, yet the truth slips through
the occupier can arrest you for a joke.
No one lived here before we came it all belong to us as they proudly lie to themselves
as they slowly sink into the apathy of a frozen culture and self-loathing.
Tomorrow it will be your turn to be arrested for speaking your mind.
Evaluate the Candidates
By Franklin Price
2/16/2016
Evaluate the candidates
Listen well to what they say
While remembering when Congress works
The country runs its way
The chief executive is not the one
Making laws to seal our fates
Congress is where that is done
The president administrates
Of course there is the veto
When the Pres does not agree
That the bill that's passing o'er the desk
Is not good for you and me
Returning to the congress
The bill can still be passed
By overriding veto there
Or by reaching states at last
I could keep on keeping on
Continue to hob and nob
But I'll end and say, would not be here today,
If congress had done its job
To Have Fun With the Candidates
By Franklin Price
1/25/2015
To have fun with the candidates
Should not cause any fuss
For after all most every day
They're having fun with us
Trump is a real playing card
Ted would like to Cruz to a win
Jeb's just beating 'round the Bush
Rubio thinks he's a Gem
Fiorina's whole wheat flour
Then there's honey Huckabee
We should be in a Santorum
There's a Christie cream to see
The taste could make a Kasich
Costing way too many Rand
Wouldn't like to drive their Carson
Maybe a Republican
The leprechaun O'Malley
Feels the Bern socialistically
If he's going to make it to the top
Has to climb the Hillary
So confused there are so many
Hard to see how I should vote
Who won't lead us lambs to slaughter?
Who won't be a Judas goat?
Guess that wasn't funny
Well it wasn't meant to be
Be careful what you're looking at
Is what you think you see
Should All Candidates Be Composed
Should all candidates be composed
Or wait until there is further exposed
Of then always being rather redundant
Giving an appearance looking repugnant.
Even though he is approaching senility
Hasn't affected any of his acting ability
So what is all this trying to say to me
He is quite outspoken and lacks humility.
In his cap just added another feather
As the result of a humongous endeavor
Which about do want to write a sonnet
Cap is now looking like a war bonnet.
What I am detecting is he has an urge
To sure in popularity and then emerge
Cleared his throat after having a cough
And in thick and thin don't tick people off.
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
They promised us voters
All manner of pleasant solace
As this manifesto witnesses;
And to show our reliance
We implored them to denounce
Older forms of dishonesty
With charity appreciable by view
They and each of them
And all their ilk even
Swore to buy our support
In gross and in detail
And so on and so forth
Mutatis mutandis
Per omnia saecula saeculorum!
But we were lowly natives
And matched with local casuistry
And various verbal falsehoods
What code of necromancy
Would misfortunes foretell!
Nefarious candidates
The time has come:
Purge your consciences!
They promised us
All manner of pleasant solace
As this manifesto witnesses;
And to show our reliance
We implored them to denounce
Older forms of dishonesty
With charity appreciable by view
They and each of them
And all their ilk
Swore to buy our support
In gross and in detail
And so on and so forth
Mutatis mutandis
Per omnia saecula saeculorum!
But we were lowly natives
And matched with local casuistry
And various verbal falsehoods
What code of necromancy
Would misfortunes foretell!
Nefarious candidates
The time has come:
Purge your consciences!
I have something to say that is certainly true.
When we have Presidential elections, we need four candidates instead of two.
We need two Republican candidates and two Democrats.
It would be wonderful if elections worked like that.
In two or three elections, I've heard people say they wished they had somebody else to vote for.
If we ever have four candidates to choose from, we won't have that problem anymore.
We need twice as many candidates when we make our selections.
This would make things a lot better when we have elections.
If you’re voting for Santorum
We really must address
Those sweaters – why he wore ‘em
Is anybody’s guess
If voting for a Newt
Remember what he’s been
A D.C. political suit
Do we want him there again
A vote for Texas Perry
Is a right-wing conservative vote
But think now and be wary
Of the book that he once wrote
If you’re voting for this fellow Mitt
The front-runner as of now
Take a breath and sleep on it
He might kill your sacred cow
If you don’t care where we’re going
Or where we just have been
Obama’s weaknesses now are showing
Can you really vote for him
I know that my views
Don’t matter at all
You’ll choose who you choose
For I know it’s your call
2/10/12
The highest office in our land will soon be decided.
Opponents spar, both tooth and nail; reputations derided.
“Just look at his voting record,” said one brash candidate.
“His radical positions are so quick to desecrate.
Promptly, and viciously, his opponent fired right back,
With a profane, demeaning, and scourging attack.
“His way is misleading; his promises don’t ring true.
Just hollow rhetoric, for which he has no clue.
“Voters can’t believe his empty pledge that sounds cozy.
Our economy is at stake, yet he makes it sound so rosy.
“Unfortunately, to me the media has been most unkind.
Their reporters have attacked and maligned.
“My opponent, with flawed logic, and twisted facts,
Bashes me with unmerciful and lambasting attacks.
While his tax proposals will put us in a hole.
He will likely put our whole nation on the dole.
“And who will pay the bill? Surely we all will pay,
Since he betrothed Freddie Mac to Fannie Mae!”
Would - be
leaders
appear on
the screen
the masses
are treated to quite a show
let the motion of the moon
guide us to
a peaceful
land
which we will
get to
if we
decide to
dream together
Can these leaders
show us
what to dream?
We need electricity
Electricity
Elec - tri - city
and while the lights of a thousand cities
dance before our eye
the political machines
roll on like ten wheel trailers!
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