Long Living wage Poems

Au revoir oh perilous freedom...

Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.

Ever since the notions
of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
coalesced within the mindscape
attributed to one
or more...

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A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equaled the amount...

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I could not do what you are mandated to do
every day on society's justice bench,
weighing retributive justice 
against restorative healing.

I cannot look with any comfort
at police
and correction officers'
routinely criminalizing vocations,
and courtroom injudicious levying of fines
against...

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A Banker and a Lawyer were nose to nose 
    in a fit of angry rage.
Having dented fenders while driving 
    and now were both fiercely engaged.
While each was...

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Learning disabled, hopelessly unemployed
Troy can't write the address for his next interview.
Warehouse stock, 331 Tiffany Street, in the Bronx.
His girlfriend, Trinity, also unemployed,
with one child by Troy. She's more resourceful
but doesn't realize it. For one...

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Mitchell: At this level, as with the rest, one might also find those who have stumbled down from a higher step on the crystal staircase from dancing too many tangos in their Manolo Blahniks, as...

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I’ve never put a candidate’s bumper sticker on my car before—
why not take sides—what are you waiting for?
Death puts a stop to daily low intensity warfare but in the meantime—
     ...

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The American Presidential Election on 8th November 2016
Will determine the nation’s future policies and government
Its candidates will qualify by caucuses and primaries successes
And all most definitely with seriousness will give addresses

Hillary Clinton is a democrat...

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I REMEMBER A TIME WHEN A MAN WOULDNT CONSIDER LISTNING
TO THE TYPE OF THINGS THAT MODERN POLITICIANS SUGGESTING
AND THOSE MEN KNEW MEN BEFORE THEM THAT WOULD LISTEN TO EVEN LESS TODAYS WORDS WOULDNT DRAW A...

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I Don't Believe in Slavery
By Franklin Price
07/01/2020

I don't believe in slavery of any class or creed. 
Slavery most always comes from power and from greed.
When the rich don't have the riches, to control what they...

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They wage war on the poor
Selling their souls what for
But for gluttony and greed
Dissension is what they breed
Harmony and discord
A duality we can't afford
People die on the street
Chilled to the bone, no heat
No bread, no...

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The Boss Up in His Tower
By Franklin Price
12/8/2016

The boss up in his tower, and the worker down below
Had somehow disconnected, how it happened who's to know
 Been together since conception of the business and the...

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HARD WORK


They say that hard work will not kill you, just tell that to our ancestors who worked hard all their lives.
 Believing in the great lie, fed to them by those in charge, that...

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Those 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...

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Magnanimous Man My Papa – Ha!

Flagrant red hot poker rage
lacerated upon the head of this sole
male offspring, sans he who did
help to sire me, his vitriolic baggage
inflicted like graped shot,

and deployed barrage
also akin to inflicting...

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JUSTICE

They stare out at us unsmiling
from tintypes of the first photographs,
from the tea-colored pictures 
of thin, ragged immigrants, huddled 
in cold bare rooms in tenements,
children clinging, dazed and frightened, 
their paltry belongings tied in scarves.
They...

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Ideals

Ideals 

High ideals?  
We all had them 
In the forties, in college, 
those long, all-night
heated arguments,  
sitting cross-legged 
on the floor,
debating how
to change the world.
Words – ideas,
what we could do
some day.

Twenty years 
before...

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Trickle Down Economics
By Franklin Price
6/10/2017

Trickle down economics has been around for quite awhile
Makes the rich so very happy doesn't make the middle smile
Puts the masses at the beck and call of the increasing super rich
They...

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How can we take pride in a country
that is sliding into dissolution and chaos?
We praise ourselves for ending slavery.
yet racial prejudice is still much with us.
We pay slave wages and refuse to change
the minimum wage...

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It seems it takes reams of paperwork to get things done nowadays.
You can become so snarled in red tape that it'll leave you in a daze!
I wonder how Noah would've coped with such onerous fiddle-faddle,
Had...

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Prowling predator in a starless night.
No one knew when it began.
Have we forgotten all the lies about Vietnam,
the predatory newspeak from Pentagon deception?

Prowling predator in a starless night.
Do we recall a lying president dispensing
cocaine jingoism,...

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MAESTRO

He knew all along that it would be pressure
Not just to conduct but bring out the best 
This brass band from a mining community
Trying to keep it alive, almost their duty
An almost forgotten tradition, going...

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no giving up
no giving in 
dont kill yourself 
from that 
you cant repent 
once was lost
 now
 lets begin 
Divine is here 
destined to win
till the fin. 

Keep it real 
they all pretend
You feeling broken...

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We’re dancing with the blues, a twilight silent musical,
But it’s a fine soiree; a low rent way to have it all.
We’ll close our eyes and hum a tune, it’s one we’ll just make up,
And dub...

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Sorry your kids can't come into
school today

As all the teachers are out on strike
wanting better pay

So are the doctor's and nurses and
paramedics as well

If you are sadly unfortunately feeling
unwell or have any form or other...

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