Poetry – Legitimized Robbery
Aug08
on August 8, 2012
at 7:09 pm
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LEGITIMIZED ROBBERY
I was the nameless driver of a corporate slave ship
Dug myself further for nothing in a grave shift
Pseudo day-dreamed of giving this place a face lift
I tried to be peaceful, but I’m forced to slander with another obscenity laced
gift
I’m told “Welcome to the new American way”
I was lucky to be overqualified and under appreciated
The term
American Dream has been outdated
We’re victims of legitimized robbery, most of us don’t even know
It’s a scripted
disaster, we’re all stars in our own bleak reality show
Professors paint a pretty picture
We’re molded to believe
everything in their scripture
You want lies with that? Congratulations, you are now a statistic
Welcome to the real world,
it’s heartless
Everyday’s an Alaskan winter, you never thought it could be so sadistic
Here today, tomorrow I’ll be traded
for overseas slavery
Replaced by robots, sheep, and a third world population
Now, I don’t even get paid for mental
copulation
Bottom line is greed
I feel like Phoenix, Arizona
is watering my seed
I feel like Seattle, Washington when it comes to sunlight
I have Midwestern Rust
Belt blurry visions
All around me, the buildings and the people crumble in blight
Now, should I bend over in front of
Harrisburg and get my master’s degree?
Oh, I forgot, I’m already under water, no more funding for me
Should I remain a paid
actor and hide my misery?
The thieves of power don’t want me to make history
They don’t want my name in the books
One that these crooks cannot cook
It’s just another day
You suck up and smile with nothing to say
Sip
your coffee, read your paper,
and pretend this robbery will magically go away
I guess you’ll never learn
Until
you see the last post on your white picket fence burn
Copyright 2012 – MCB
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