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The Democratic Way Of Life

by Jersey D Gibson

Partisian, bi-partisian, pardon me,
did you really have something to say?
You may have had a good idea,
yet you hold the wrong party card.

You're for equal rights, yet I never really cared,
we're on seperate battlefronts.
Two different camps with two different opinions,
united we stand; like that will ever happen.

It's all about politics, and I never liked yours,
rock stars with a linguistic flair of lying.
Wear really nice suits, nice hair cuts, nice car,
wonder how we afford all of that?

We've got the sponcers, the intrests groups, the bribes,
we use government jets to make lunch meetings in Peiking.
Big Tobacco lobbies us with Benjamin Franklin,
next thing you know, we're accepting the cancer society, too.

It's not about unity, it's about ambiguity;
the moral compass of a zig-zag line.
Lining our pockets, singing our hosanahs,
while our constuitants spiral ever downward.*


















*By constuitants, I mean the Lower and Middle class.
The rich and wealthy are all taken care of,
mostly tax cuts and shelters.

By bribes, I mean good business,
for what others may deem as insider trading,
for the American Government, it's the Iowa Cacus.

And by Equal Rights, I mean mine, not yours.
Mormon, Muslim, Woman, Pro-Choice activist.
God forbid diversity would do us any good.

08/11/2007

Posted on 08/11/2007
Copyright © 2024 Jersey D Gibson

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Aaron Michael on 08/12/07 at 06:48 AM

amen.

Posted by Jim Benz on 08/15/07 at 01:28 PM

yeah, some rights are more equal than others, eh? definitely depends on which side of the economic coin one falls on. you really know how to spin a phrase, Jersey, and then tie them altogether into an interesting poem.

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