Busted Trust Poem by John Sensele

Staple meals we can't afford
Means of survival you steal
Pouring pavements of poverty and discord
Into the ghetto deal

On our standard of life
Reeling from austerity measures on us you impose
Prompting strife between man and wife
Poverty is the cause

Famine stricken folks eat
Feeding on slices of air
While fat cats tweet
Puny promises so unclear

They dwindle the trust
To you we lent
Only for poverty to bust
Hope in our capacity to pay our rent.