To the self appointed patricians of government
Take back your schemes
Take back your doles
What makes you deem
That I was one of your proles
I may have needs
Wishes it’s true
Keep your snake oil and beads
I’ll get along without you
You came along with all your clever machinations
Supported and all paid for by enforced donations
So take back your dosh
We’ll make no fuss
Just remember by gosh
You got it all from us
COLOURS OF LIFE
Umber is the colour of the ferny bracken heath
Broken fronds dishevelled and unkempt
Flaxen is the dry grass laid by wind in tousled sheaf
Sanguine, woodland floor with leaves, life spent
Thus are the groundlings of this changing
land
In winter landscape rough and unrefined
While trees, sylvan patricians tall now stand
Aloof in naked elegance designed
Inequity abounds throughout life’s drama
That some deplore and protest at this end
But would you not accept outcome of karma
When each play you’d select what to pretend
In form and shade profuse life forms abound
And vary without pause throughout the seasons
Their changes though predicted yet astound
Excite a wonder, give existence reason
I'm laying here wondering
why things aren't free
could it be society blundering
that could be the key
I do not condone
the behavior of ancient Rome
yet they had entertainment
that didn't require a payment
I'll stay on that subject
a particular aspect
it was offered to the Plebs
Patricians and Equestrians regardless of their threads
Something when awry with Adam Smith's stand
a result of a greedy clan
this stuff just went through my head
"Give us this day our daily bread"
Inept illiterate and corrupt politicians
Hail the Roman patricians
Men and women depending on Buffoons
And an Orange haired tycoon
Explanation of standing positions
Require a doctorate in disinformation
Machiavellian court of intrigue
Policy and norms exhaust fatigue
Diplomatic and economic principles erased
Stature of women disgraced
Leaders stooping to obscene new lows
Standing in line for the Fox shows
Citizens disenchanted and propagandized
Blacks and browns disenfranchised
What a huge disappointment in leadership
Down to the bottom drip by drip
What ever happened to educated and refinement
Religious principles for self aggrandizement
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