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Realtorality

Deny it; it makes no difference:

the American government pitches its deceitful realtor-reality to the world:

flaunting our flag as the banner of the free, but avoiding

our faults and failures as a country.

“Oh yes! We’re rollin’ in the (borrowed) bucks!

We’re a proud superpower capable of chaos; calamity!”

Well, kudos on your catastrophes: we all know it’s a hollow show.

 

See, we’re slaves to China, bound by China’s chains

to billions of dollars, the deficit deepening daily.

And who’s to blame?

“Not I!” says the Democrat.

“Not I!” says the Republican.

“Not I” say I, but we

weaved our financial woes together.

It’s not stupidity; if we could see into the future, we’d be shakin’ our money makers.

But have you seen the current fiscal guillotine

whose blade looms low and approaching our throats?

Oh, irony of ironies: the American government isn’t free.

Oh mah gee.

Freak out!

Calm down...

Forbes informs me that federal spending spurs private sector growth.

But when fifty-four thousand buckaroos from you

and you

and you

and me too is just enough

to cover Congress’ **** until the dimwits there do another... (insert something dumb),

it’s time to draw the line.

 

And time to erase lines previously drawn:

George Washington warned us once before:

“...the common and continual mischiefs of [political] parties are sufficient to make it the... duty of a wise people to discourage... it.”

Yet here we are: the media’s reporting majority wars

that serve only to sail us further offshore from Pristine America

and a time when things really seemed to matter, especially when they did.

Deny it; it doesn’t matter; it doesn’t change

our chances of escaping another Cuban

Missile

Crisis. If we waged World

War

Three, what would we

do?

One

thing: debate, procrastinate, our fate

a fragile plaything fought over

by infantile, full-grown fanatics who never quite phased out of high school debate.

They never learned to lose, and so they play the inane blame game,

I say quite frankly: gurl. Dat cray-cray.

Dear Democracy, when will my words hold water?

When will the weight of a rainbow OREO or a

monogamous monotone monotheistic chicken sandwich

on my guilty conscience be lifted?

Must I muster a hungry lackluster life in the land of opportunity

to oppose tyranny

and uphold justice? I turned eighteen last December,

but for as long as I can remember

I’ve been voting with the dollar bill, my ballot

traveling through the bloodstream, fueling the body of big business, who fuel the daring charities, who fuel their bills in congress.

 

Democracy, do you know me?

For this faux-democratic nation where the population waits for the government to lay itself to waste, the Founding Fathers sob, disgraced.

Oh, God Bless America!

the nation where when faced with any

[man, woman, child, intersex, genderqueer, etc.] who dares defile the status quo,

accept the stigma like a crown of thorns, on top of all the scorn

We The People

donate millions to “charities” who dare to speak for

Jesus,

the meek and mild. John chapter eight, verses one through eight:

he drew a

fine line in the

sand, man:

it’s where your rights end and mine begin. Irony, irony: they are as good as

mine.

For this faux-democratic nation where the population waits for the government to lay itself to waste, the Founding Fathers sob, disgraced.

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victor-thorn
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Jan 21, 2013
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