Sequestration

the fallout from sequestration

are fetal cells from menustration

 

cuts fall like a damaged cervix

jobs once safe are now deep-six

 

there are people existing out there

in the boondocks writhing in fear

 

political parties that are far away

can't really understand the everyday

 

the people who teach, who educate

the youth at such depressing rates

 

are becoming part of the ninety-nine,

applications aplenty with lengthy lines

 

the profession itself can survive

recessions, the private side dives

 

but when the federalists fund

the grants, those teachers are gunned,

 

gunned down into bloody bits

all over political bullshit

 

both sides, red and blue, f**k over

the common folk, the dead dog Rover

 

we are the jury under sequester,

what the hell happens after semester?

 

the answer is now anybody's guess,

you may get the job's that the best

 

or maybe you become a ninety-niner

akin to an ostracized social climber

 

welcome to the new social order

that's pushing closer to the border

 

the border of death, the border of hell,

pachyderms and donkeys f*****g smell

 

worse than the nastiest menustral blood,

fireworks that fail, fireworks called duds

 

so cry it out, cry out those stored tears

political fallout has caused deepest fears

 

the ice has cracked, people are sinking

all the while the donkey head is winking

 

this is the price paid by rancid votes,

human rulers are just biblical goats

Reviews

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

I always enjoy reading you Ken, it is a pleasure reading the words of your mind. Well said.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thank you, Neva. Glad you stopped in.

[Robin]

your hammer thunders ... politics , poetry , you know the beat

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thanks, robin.

[Chris]

Damn, I hated that this had to be soooo true Ken.

I wonder how soon before they ask for more volunteers on Craigslist to teach for free because more kids continue to fall on the ash heaps their parents allowed to become their futures.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thanks, Chris. A certain subsets of American schools at home and abroad are losing teachers due to the sequester. It's just compounding the problems like you said.