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4/23/2015 2:32:41 PM Wally Flint Posts: 9	Would love to hear comments on this poem. The Great Puppeteer The CEO wore a six hundred dollar wool-silk blended suit and he stroked his tie as he counted his loot 10 million for me 10 million for my stockholders if you please and that leaves 7 dollars for my employees leaning back in his leather chair he muses thinking of the people he uses we’ve got to stop raising minimum wage if we’re to go on living in this golden age the great puppeteer he knows he’s got a good thing going here so with a little hocus pocus he gets his employees to focus on poor people who live in despair he gets them complaining about people on welfare it’s called divide and conquer said he you see the poor are so naive they’ll never see the card I have up my sleeve I’ll get them fighting over the scraps I leave and they won’t even notice I’m having a feast no one would believe! See more of my stuff at: www.poetrysoup.com/me/wallyflint edited by wallyflint on 4/23/2015
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4/23/2015 4:11:08 PM K.M North Posts: 97	As a critique at the last verse I would change up the part "it's called divide and conquer said he, you see". To me it just reads funny. I know you were going for a whole rhyming scheme at the end but it just reads funny. As far as the overall poem it's not really my thing. I prefer things that feature emotion. Everyone knows big business players are greedy. They'd even admit it themselves. But yeah, it's not bad for what it is. Just not my thing, for a critique I'd just change that part I mentioned-Kevin
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