To a conservative republican
which is redundant
taxes is a five letter word
dirtier than any four letter word
they’re outraged that a sliver
of their hard earned (?) dollars
might be doled out to such
useless things as
health care, education and
infrastructure
to people so undeserving
as old ladies on fixed incomes
and infants of the working poor
who shouldn’t have had them
in the first place
but to the people on the right
I ask without our tax dollars
how would we pay
for the bullets, machine guns
tanks, choppers
stealth fighters,
cluster bombs, bunker busters
and smart bombs
for the wars you advocate?
not to mention
body armor for the troops
benefits for those
who become disabled
and burial for those
who paid with
their lives
Comments
1 - 11 of 11
-
I once heard of a club...
where about 80% of the members had been done for drunk driving, gone bankrupt, been prosecuted for dishonesty, insider share dealing etc... It was the American Congress...
What I REALLY hate about this situation is that whatever colour your politics are, the truth for the Uk and the US and a few others is we're all tied into the war machine by every buck we make. Every congressional district in America, every county in the UK, wants the jobs that come from "defense" spending. Every corporation wants the contracts from "reconstruction" or bombing the place to smithereens in the first place.
What a great use of money. We pay to elect some arse who gets us a contract to make something "for defense". We pay to use it in an impossibly distant place to blow up the homes of people, "defensively" of course... then we pay to "re-construct" the place - then pay again when it's all shot to shite all over again.
We have got to be the most gullible people in human history to fall for this.
I think we should have gone to Afghanistan in 2001 and bought every damn house in the country for 200x its price, then done the same in Iraq. We'd still have come out better than we have... but the boys wouldn't have had their contracts, would they? Ain't how - or why - it's done.
A good and provoking piece, for me anyway...
-
hey Dave
LoL I enjoyed this one very much, I liked the title (which is what made me click on this poem and see what it's all about. Plus I'm a fan of alot of your work that I've read. You obviously have control over your humorous aspects of your work, so I don't feel I need to go into that area. Or the irony like Raven said. Both played into the poem and its direction. It took me a couple of times to try and understand the flow. But if you just ignore that and read the words as you see them, pausing when you should, the poem works and reads well to me. A good write indeed. Congrats and hope to hear from ya soon.
TTYL
MM
language: 5, rhythm: 3, subject: 5, tone: 5, form: 4.
-
hahahaha
I have an answer for the last 2 of your stanzas. It's not their families on the front line. It's the sons and daughters of the poor families in America. So they don't care if they have adequate armor or rehabilitation if these troops lose any limbs.
Back to the poem: I obviously like the subject, being a very liberal political science major. I think you used humor and irony well here and it was fun to read. Cheers.
Andrealanguage: 4, rhythm: 5, subject: 5, tone: 5, form: 4.
-
this ended too soon!!! the tax shelter had just begun to get exposed!!!
-
Damn those disabled troops! How dare they ask for fruity things like disabilty benefits and job training for the disabled? Haven't we paid enough sending them to a useless war in the first place! And then they ask for money for a college education? Don't get me started!
(Yes, I'm being sarcastic).
-
-
thanks lady j
you get my point exactly.
dave
-
-
David
Thanks for the nice words. A few similes never hurt. -
Political but good
No punches pulled here Dave. You could get a job as a speech writer for the Democrats. Have you seen 'Bobby' (the movie) yet. Amazingly timely in these days of America at war and the nations hopes riding on liberal visionary. Nice write as usual. >W< -
-
hey john
i haven't seen the movie yet. i wouldn't only want to write political poetry but enjoy when the mood strikes. comic George Carlin died and he had a long sucessful career with politicial humor.
dave
-
-
Prosey not poetry
This is really a rant I think. -
-
hey libralight
fair enough, maybe i'll through in some similes and metaphors and obscure references to make it more poetic. thanks for commenting.
dave
-
Adding your comment:
1 - 11 of 11
