The mayor out to save a few bucks
dragged his feet declaring a snow emergency.
The sanitation department decided it was time
to begin a work slowdown protesting cutbacks made
to their department during the last budget crises.
Though union officials when questioned
about this insisted.
They were being used as scapegoats again!
And my snow blower wouldn’t start cause.
I stored it at the end of last season minus
a gas extender you’re advised to add to its gas tank
in the owner's manual, but come on!
Who reads owner manuals?
Categories:
cutbacks, weather,
Form: Free verse
At the MC1R Mutation Station
Like everywhere else, we’re fighting inflation
This economy sure does take it’s tolls
A few cutbacks, but within regulation
Just to meet our minimum sales goals
We started shipping product without any souls
They may also come with a few freckles less
Not many noticed, according to our polls
We tried to ship faster to boost our success
With a new promo called the ginger express
Still not as quick as that hot-tempered mail man….
His delivery speed is one to impress
In a cost saving effort for our new plan
The current shipment will only burn and not tan
They can, although, make their own vitamin D
Saves on natural sun light for their life span
There was a shipping error at the factory
The Emerald Isle put in an order you see
We shipped 10 times the amount there instead
They’ll stay as per our no return policy
We soon hope to put these cutbacks to bed
Our product really is as great as they’ve said
Industry led in all things chic and unique
This brand new batch of clever, feisty, redhead
For all fellow Redheads that have trouble with automatic doors, cheers!
Categories:
cutbacks, funny, humorous,
Form: Rubaiyat
She arose…
A phoenix out of a pile of ashes…
Out of abandonment
Out of hardships and constraints
Out of depression and sadness
She arose…
Out of cutbacks and setbacks
Taking to the sky, looking down on ghosts
of mental, physical and economical abuse
She arose…
Strong, majestic, empowered and divine
Out of trials and tribulations she climbed…
Casting off unsightly remnants of loss and despair –
Leaving pain and sadness behind
She arose…
A new creature – beautiful and refined
Out of a pile of ashes the phoenix climbed
With a surge of energy, she took to the sky
And never looked back where her burdens lie
She arose.
Categories:
cutbacks, confidence, courage, endurance, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Winter wrinkles while showing signs of age:
but under banks of snow, it's tough to gauge.
Although Spring showers are mostly sprinkles,
while showing signs of age, Winter wrinkles.
Robin Redbreasts arrive just before Spring,
anticipating the warmth that She'll bring.
And spreading the word that Nature's alive:
just before Spring, Robin Redbreasts arrive.
Trilliums sprout in the forest cutbacks,
while the river ice buckles, forming packs.
And when Winter wrinkles, looking worn out:
in the forest cutbacks, trilliums sprout.
No longer white, Winter's a sullied grey,
Her crystalline beauty melted away.
And now, under the sun's extended light,
Winter's a sullied grey, no longer white.
Waiting in the wings, there's a feisty Spring
with daffodils pulling at Her heartstrings.
As dripping icicles give up their bling,
there's a feisty Spring waiting in the wings.
Categories:
cutbacks, 10th grade, anxiety, change,
Form: Quatrain
Put me in a binbag
When I pass away
I really don’t mind at all
‘Cos where I’m put I’’ll stay
They come on Thursday morning you know
In their Phoenix truck
So throw me up in the back
I’ll be undiscovered with any luck
It’s reassuring to know you see
That nobody cares at all
In this time of monetary cutbacks
To economise with the funeral
If the council should complain
Saying “ it’s not our job mate “
To cart away late personages
T’is a job that we really hate
The journey out wasn’t too bad
The truck was in fact rather cosy
The in-flight meal was garbage though
And the pedestrians are rather nosy
And now the sun is going down
Over this council tip
It really is quite nasty here
I don’t think it was worth the trip
Categories:
cutbacks, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
TOTING GUNS
There is something
Visceral
About a gun
Urban Fright
In the dead of night
Sends panic through the
Wayward driver
Working too late
On the edgy side of town
where black of night
ignites drug life &
drive by shootings
safety vanishes with
cutbacks
forcing cops to
battle paperwork instead of crime
dealing soljas flash hardware
black looks behind black shades
flash hate upon hate
take
A bite of barbed wire
to taste this danger
But the walther ppk
--One in the chamber--
Safely tucked
Under the seat
A Shot of courage
Tames the fear
like wild dogs--
turns a pit bull into a mouse
Categories:
cutbacks, adventure, life, drug,
Form: Free verse
Merry Christmas to you, Uncle Sam
Leaving the jobless with hat in hand
Congress on a Yuletide roll
Brought an end to public dole --
They’re cooking their goose, not Christmas ham
*Written in 2010 after Congress made cutbacks in social service programs
Categories:
cutbacks, christmas,
Form: Limerick
Melancholy dreams,
fourth quarter fiscal year end
wishful thinking tears...
Hegemony egemon
the son of satan, mammon
chaotic havoc...
Categories:
cutbacks, business, political
Form: Senryu