Is it a Recession?
Is it a Depression?
It’s definitely become
Our National Obsession!
And the nationwide News
With their ‘expert’ views
Does nothing more than
Help spread the blues
“with more job layoffs”
“Senate seat payoffs”
and tonight at 10 – there’s
Moron the Madoffs
New corporate greed
As the CEO’s plead
It feels like we’ve all just been
A-I-G ’d
Our grand legislators
Hopeful ‘liberators’
Have become nothing more now
Than just great debaters
Lots of politics
But no real quick fix
We’ve run out of time for
Their rhetorics
We need a solution
A “New Revolution”
Not more of the same old
Noise Pollution
So I’m hoping that congress
Can clean up their big mess
And stop pointing fingers,
‘cause no one is blameless
And we’re all included
That can’t be disputed
We once turned a blind eye,
Now deaf, dumb & muted
But it’s helped make things clearer,
We can’t live cavalier (er)
Our resources; our planet,
We must hold them dearer
Perhaps now we can see
Our road to recovery
Lies in stem cells, or wind farms
Or some great discovery
From lab or from board room,
Or surface of Neptune
Regardless of where,
I hope that it comes soon
‘cause it would be a pity
And sure won’t be pretty
If this nation becomes
One big tent city!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Dear Sam Furman, How on earth did you get that many lines to rhyme? ? ? that was an awesome poem. it nailed everything right on. i loved it. thanx for writing it, Sincerely, Natalie