Skin felt the pain
While playing a peaceful golfing game
Challenging the course’s blister campaign
Terrorizing the toe
Forcing a temporary surgical sew
Oh
No
To keep this show
On the go
They must know
Basic health care
Not to scare
Removing infected nail
Transporting remains towards the waste management pail
Bloody and red
Now dead
Left as trash
Above the fairway grass
Next to Frank’s Furter
Who was murdered
After pork barrel spending
And over lending
Worth commending
Pending
Cooking the links
Hearing what others think
About another medical review
Of the pinkie one too
Country club house bound
And the parfect round
No bogeys in sight
Feeling right
Since all has healed
Closing the deal
Without a squeal
Or scream
From the green
Manicured and pristine
Ready for a four-day dream
300.
Our Golden Times During PNoy – Part 5
Behold PNoy kicking like horse
Corrupt officials kicked out with force
Senators involved in spoiling pork barrel
Are now holding bars in each own cell
Officers accused in police and medic
Are also not spared from the angst of the kick
If public corruption is sincerely detached
Territorial protection is willingly attached
Established by the visit of Obama
Speaking of foreign, we got something in FIBA
Gilas Pilipinas made us Most Valuable
Proving Filipinos are fans indomitable
Fans of those to country give heart
Fans of those like PNoy who's smart
Go like Rachelle Ann, our pride offshore in theater
Swerve like Michael Christian, our first Olympian in winter.
-12/30/2014
(Dumarao)
234.
Our Golden Times During PNoy-Part 4
Behold PNoy in the Year of the Snake
A year of terrible typhoon & earthquake
A year of scam about pork barrel
A year in Zamboanga there's a battle
This year's really a great trial
A year of calamities & upheaval
But PNoy a leader who is alert
Warned the nation of imminent hurt
To places inflicted he himself went
Gave aids & comfort and slept in tent
A man for all he really is
That's why Team PNoy had many parties
‘Coz whatever party you may belong
If you're on Straight Path you come along
But if you're a partymate of crime accused
To him you'll never be excused.
-12/31/2013
(Dumarao)
Alaska's Highway to Nowhere
Unattainable goals are like dead-end roads;
Though lofty, they are a waste of time, effort, and money.
Grandiose in scale and impressive to construct,
The “Gravina bridge to nowhere” promised prosperity.
“Whose idea was that?”
Pork-barrel funding at its finest!
Earmarked in 2005
With a four-hundred-million-dollar price tag
To replace the ferry service across the Tongass Narrows
Challenges the mind: “Whatever for?”
From Ketchikan, Alaska, to Gravina Island,
A community of 50 residents and an airport
That became a major talking point
During the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
Through the Alaskan frontier,
A road follows the isle’s coastline for 3.2 miles,
And then the Gravina Island Highway ends
Where a bridge should connect but doesn’t exist.
the people's money
they called it porked
inside a barrel
that can be inserted
on the greediest pockets
tax from sweat and blood
of the working class
that strive
to find conforts in life
to help the poor as they reasoned
long greed had consumed
the country that i call my love
that the money i have worked hard for
where have all gone
long greed hides itself under the shadow of charity
but we are not damned anymore
the wisdom within us
awaken
and we cannot be decieved anymore
09/05/2013, philippines - on the issue of pork barrel
This country's wealth is owed to loans
A debit the public now owns
We're told there’s no cost
But old lifestyles are lost
Over war and pork barrel bones
The public’s frail pockets they pick
Politicians and banksters trick
And prime the nation
With graft and inflation
Thus making the middle class sick
If I were a fly, I would take my place
In the halls of Congress where haste makes waste
I’d buzz the House Speaker’s ear
Because it has become clear
The voice of the public has been misplaced
Perhaps a good buzz would open their ears
Before they explore new spending frontiers
Pork barrel projects still grow
Let’s Make a Deal’s a game show
This game must end now as we’re in arrears
I’d surely make a nuisance of myself
I make a heck of a pesky black elf
Sit on cups before they drink
Lay eggs on collars of mink
Then wreak havoc with Obama himself
*Entry for Michael Falotico’s “Fly on the Wall” contest
Will there ever be an ending to pork barrel spending
Written By Dean Masciarelli
September 10, 2010 (4:45pm)
Will there ever be an
ending to
pork barrel spending
Maybe there will be
if we
can start downsizing
By eliminating
the
unnecessary spending
So that we can climb out
of this recession
that we have all been in
But it is going to take
some
innovative thinking
And someone in power
who is
willing to clamp down
By freezing any future
projects
that are in the making
So that we can get out
of this
recession that we are in
And continue to prosper
into the next millennium
In God we Trust, they builded a house on a Foundation
a house without a foundation goes down during hard
times in the War or Storm, as the eagle won't ever
die the house isn't going off the foundation, its build
for bipartsin, and that were God comes in for Bipartsin
a house divide, to divide and then conquer its our
policy pork barrel Regan would say its Pork Barrel
a house divide can Conquer, on the Mountain Stop
were GAINTS stand and the white snow on the mountain tops
home sweet, home were the green green trees
our on the snow cover Mountains and Blessed
is our home of Victory sweet sweet home of
Victory, were the fire is always lite, and Our
Father is always home for the cold cold icly
World and Wars and we have know were to go go
home on the Mountain Stops in God we
Trust. May 17 2007 the War Iraq
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