Political Chicago Poems

Chicago's new mayor just proposed
    another plan to put a heavy load

  on us beleaguered taxpayers --
    We'd...

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For Mayor, Chicago voted for a former teacher
       What'd they get ~ a revival preacher

    ...

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Everyone's talking about crime these days
     So few police, it seems thuggery pays

   No hotter topics than murder or...

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot's
  Hopes turned into soot

     Her dreams of adulation
     Metamorphed to detestation...

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Lightfoot's Mayor job, let's not interrupt
  Removing her from office, too abrupt ~ 
    Forget the lockdowns and crime
  ...

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Gorden Lightfoot sang of a sinking ship
that mother superior never forgets
Lori Lightfoot is mayor
to a city of slayers
her political bow is starting to list...

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Tears in a revolution 
Tear gas from the institution 

The judge doesn't know their names
But the whole world was watching

A panther put with the bunch
Bound...

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Growing up with an angel that loved me.
Hovering close,with cane, walking.
Me, on a tricycle to the candy store,
Bright summer days I cannot ignore.

Though decades have...

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In Chicago, Mayor RICHARD J ruled the roost DALEY for 21 years,
  Til he breathed his last, giving way to the 'next sir:' ...

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Parley

Parley on the dance floor the Ninja wants to howl,
Scream's the barbarian, a savage on the prowl.
The Parley is in the tunnel, are their only...

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There was always plenty of drugs for people to cope
But a Missionary and a Priest were their best hope.

Each day came with fears to face,...

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To the Ignorant in Chicago
By Franklin Price
3/12/2016

To the ignorant in Chicago and their organizers too,
Who gathered to cause mayhem, 'cause the Trump is not for...

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