from the man who digs the ditch;
they say it’s in the “nation’s interest”
to give it to the rich.
“Trickle Down”, the theory’s called,
where the poor supports rich greed -
then wait for falling crumbs in hope
it’ll satisfy their needs.
They take great pains to snatch the food
right out of a junior’s mouth;
took granny’s SSI from her -
sayin’ Jesus what they ‘bout.
They say they about to get the government
off of people’s backs,
yet,
every time you’re ahead a dime
they’re there to take it back.
They say we need more prayer in school
to rectify our plight;
but prayer won’t
replace the meat they took
that quenched young appetites.
Now,
I’m no scholar or economist
or man of great renown,
but genius ain’t required
to sniff the funk that’s goin’ down.
No wonder all these
"distinguished" old men
don’t care about no schools,
if we all could read and write and think
they’d fall too short on fools.
They stir-up racial hatred,
to keep us blind as bats;
they keep us
too mad at one another
to take our country back.
Eric L. Wattree