Stopped off for eggs
with ham(thought about keeping kosher for a while)
Have to say the ham was tasty!
Came up into the ESL Lab
My supervisor said he likes his
councilman
At 84 my mother
works 4 days for a Democratic Councilman
Whom I have spoken with
If I run for office
My platform would
be
More poetry open mikes!
Poetry can save your life
if you let it into your heart
Politics matters but:
EVERYTHING IS NOT POLITICAL
Voted the other day
I always do
I am a good citizen
So my fellow good citizens
reading this ode
Bet your behinds to the polls and vote
Eugene McCarthy and Abraham Lincoln
both wrote verse
Politics, poetry
Not mutually exclusive
So
Michael Nutter is Philadelphia’s
Third African American mayor,
His middle name is Anthony but
Together his name stands for MAN,
He has two children and a wife,
That understands that he has to lay people off until he gets a better plan.
Michael Nutter may be the “man”
But to run a city he needs a lot of hands.
He ran for councilman and became the Chairman.
He went to Wharton business School and learned about the rules.
He is the mayor of Philadelphia and I think that’s cool.
He has closed a lot of library and most of the neighborhood pools.
He replaced John Street and hired someone the people couldn’t fool.
He is the mayor of Philadelphia and he 's always talking about what he wants done to
public schools.
Michael Nutter is the mayor of Philadelphia and he's always on the news.
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