Discredited A Lament Poem by ivor or ivor.e hogg

Alas and alack now life is hard.
They cancelled out my credit card
I used to live in luxury
now I’m condemned to poverty

My firm downsized and let me go.
Which put an end to my cash flow
My bank foreclosed; I could not pay
therefore they took my house way

My wife divorced me and she left.
I’m single homeless and bereft.
I face a life of misery.
Nobody wants to hire me.

I’m not too old to start again
given the opportunity
but I must make do until then
on other peoples charity.

The fat cat bankers are to blame.
Lending without security
Increasing profits was their aim
That’s why they acted recklessly.

The system failed, it had to come.
/o many could or would not pay.
Vast profits had been made by some
but now hard times are here to stay.

The fat cats will escape Scott free
The government will bail them out
condoning their dishonesty
The fat cats will not go without.

To me it is a travesty
which really makes me furious
It seems there is apparently
one law for them one law for us

Though none of us can claim to be
in every way quite innocent
We could get credit easily
because of this we overspent.

Could not have done, had they not lent
with disregard for fiscal rules.
Its hard to say in the event
between us who were bigger fools.

The lenders or the borrowers
I think the lenders deserve blame
They tempted us with their offers
and changed the rules to suit their game.

It is the small man always pays.
The present system is corrupt
I think its time to change our ways
Declare the fat cats all bankrupt.

Root out and fine the guilty men
why should they always get away?
To milk the system once again
by acting in the same old way.

I think its time to call a halt
and re-establish old values.
The rotten system is at fault
I think most folk will share my views.

I’ve said my piece so I will go
back to the street to beg my bread.
It is and always has been so
I gather from the books I’ve read.

29-Nov-08

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