Chicago's new mayor just proposed
another plan to put a heavy load
on us beleaguered taxpayers --
We'd better start saying our final prayers
'Taxpayer-funded, government-owned grocery stores'
our communist mayor says, while the city council snores...
What bankrupted Russians is 'sure to work here' ~
from the same folks who brought you cannabis racketeers
Racketeers scheming dishonest fraudulent dealings
Having no remorse for other peoples feelings
This is just how they are to keep themselves and theirs
With no empathy they are whilst setting up their lairs…
Delivering deceitfulness only to obtain
Benefits from others so others will maintain…
A state of modesty for generosity gages peace
Whilst the partners push them along-only proving both are cheats.
Don’t think that you are foolish for having trusting ears
For they plot the lot of them those rampant racketeers.
Have mercy and have pity for those that are beneath
For they have lost a higher helm to lie behind tacked teeth.
Though the winds took her away on that morning of June
and the rope held her frame by the witness of the moon
the angels did not leave her Alice, of this I'M sure;
All her life she wanted to go back to Newfoundland
to an ocean of peace and seashell whispers
Toronto was a place of pure insanity Alice,
a place where doctors were seen as racketeers:
Grieve not my friend for in channeled thoughts of mind
she did not omit the possibility, of blowing in the wind
Caught by her courage she went to the gates of death
clean faced, and honest as a dove
to a heaven of reprieve where truth be told
she will never be sick again, nor ever grow old...
Before her soul was released she visited Newfoundland
with salt on her lips and sand between her toes
she took to the afterlife like a battered soldier of old
Your girl was much too beautiful for this stoic world,
and in fact so brave that even onto death
her spirit shone, as her memory lived on.
Love ? Always.
6/26/2019
Ps. dedicated to my dear friend Alice who lost her daughter two weeks ago.
Extinction For Contest
Extinction is a word that no one really wants to hear
What celebrities wear, is what captures the publics ear.
Truth is often ignored, viewed as dirt, so it's swept under the rug
Facts about the earth's destruction are met with apathetic shrugs.
No one wants to hear about things like "Gorillas in the Mist"
When it's time for change there is always profits in the midst.
Profiteers and racketeers now control all of earth's treasures
Child and slave labour contributing to the greedy's pleasures.
Planet's dying, bleeding fossil fuels beyond all human measure
They pay no heed, live only for today, basking in their leisure.
Soon, very soon, the blameless will be saved by a marked distinction
The polluters and destroyers will be the next species facing extinction.
John Derek Hamilton
January 4,2016
Some rich men are bored to tears
with visiting racketeers.
Volodymyr Knyr
2014
World Wide Web welcomed the world over
Computer communication consisting as a combined operation, though
Poised and positioned, pertinent persons are parodied, as
Caricaturists calculating cajolery creates challenges
Tacticians tantalises with tangible tall stories, though
Rules regulate racketeers and raging ranters
Friends and family Skype face to face in fellowship.
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