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How can this be allowed for our people
worked all their lives.
Trying to save for their own retirement
and reap the rewards.
They labour hard and toil over the years
finding they can't as it nears!

Eroded away the money they thought was safe
wrongly by employers.
Government changes depleting their nest eggs
then having to work longer.
Pensions worth far less than they'd expected
many retirements affected!

Placed on the stock market by speculators
too much squandered.
As it's not their own money to fritter away
to get it will take longer.
Not able to retire on the original date
some may not last the wait!

Unaffected are the wealthy usual story
they never lose out.
Richer by the day without any idea
from their high perch.
Viewing the masses in total disarray
gloating it makes their day!

The Foureyed Poet.
As the average person has to face lower pensions and work longer to get them. The usual suspects are not affected! The Foureyed Poet.
Ah, that your Flesh be that Smooth Leather pierce
Pricked by Needles on the Sands of Dubai
As the Blue Giant hovers; And shakes your Fears
From the White Winged Djinn hovering on high
He wants your Temple; Such Beauty obssessed
That even in his Realm his Kind turns Green
On how such Coil as you - Divine possessed -
Which to Retirements abhor the Mean
Which Font, then, must your Alphabet construct
Something which verily made to Run and Blow
So you lie down; And flash the Comfortiduct -
That same Pronged Victory we all should know.
After all, long have we Enjoyed such Bulge
Of Eight Metres spread; Less Five Inches indulge.
#tomdaleytv #tomdaley1994
DieingEmbers Mar 2012
Faded photogragh
in a worn out frame
smiles back at me
from yesteryear,
when we were young
and oh so foolish
planning our retirements
at twenty two.
I swore we'd take a cruise
see parish in the fall

but then...


Alcohol and diesel fumes
screech of brakes
a scream.

White gown without a veil
bouquet in a cheap glass vase
and your mothers tears.

Faded eyes
in a worn out face
stare back at me
from somewhere nowhere...

Sleep now my love

dream now my love

and I will meet you in Paris

in the fall.
Big Virge Oct 2020
It Seems That...
Folks SHOULD PREPARE... !!!

For This Phrase I Now Share...
That Clearly Will SCARE... !!!

For Heads Now Aware...

That The World...
May Be Heading...
Into A NIGHTMARE...

DYSTOPIAN... YEAH... !!!

... TOTALITARIAN... !!!
WITHOUT A Barbarian... !!!

Willing To FIGHT...
For Basic Human Rights... !!!

NO Conans’ In Sight...
In The Daytime Or Night... !!!

Because of A... VIRUS... !!!
That’s KILLING In Silence..................
NO Guns Or LOUD Sirens...
Or... Criminal Violence... ?!?

Just Infection Rates RISING... !!!
And Voices INCITING...
All Kinds of RETIREMENTS... !!!

That’s Right Like The FREEDOM...
To Simply Keep BREATHING...
WITHOUT Muffled Speaking...

Because of Mouth Covers...
Applied Now In Numbers...

Masking of Faces...
In All Kinds of Places...

Freedom Displacements...
For New Age DICTATORS... !!!

And Policy Statements...
Constantly Changing...
That Are Rearranging...

Where Humans...
Are... STATIONED...

Restrictions Now BLATANT... !!!

DYSTOPIAN Flavours...
That AREN’T Doing Favours... !!!

To Voters And Quotas...
of... Election Pollers...

Because of Race Bating...
And Uncle Toms Making...
All Kinds of Dumb Statements...

Because They Are Playing...
The Game With These Racists...

Who’ve Learned How To Hide...
What They Feel Deep Inside... !!!

While DYSTOPIAN Vibes...
Are Now BLOWING Minds... !!!

Because of The LIES...
That Leaders Provide... !!!

Black Women And Guys...
Now With MEDIA Ties...

Whose Tongues Now Seem TIED...
To These Forked Tongues And Whites...
Who... Apparently NOW...
Think Racism Should DROWN... !?!

An MLK Dream ......
Like That of ... UNITY... !!!

That May Be A NIGHTMARE... !!!
When MONEY Now BUYS...
Black Minds Who Comply...
With DYSTOPIAN Vibes...
That Now Are IN SIGHT... !!!

Because They’ve Been BOUGHT...
Like... REBELLIOUS Thoughts...

of Those Who REFUSE...
To... Join Up With Crews...
Who Use Cash To Consume...
And YES... Employ *****... !!!!

The Type Who’ll Pull Moves...
For... Supremacist Dudes... ?!?

Who WON’T TRUMP Racist Groups...
Who Are Running The News... ?!?

Like The Type of Tycoons...
Who... Now Seem To USE...
Black Bourgeoisie Tools...
Like Scientists Who...
Are... Creating FEUDS... !!!
Because of VACCINES...
And CORONA Based Speech...

That Is...
FRIGHTENING Heads... !!!

Who Seem...
... QUICK To ACCEPT...
ANYTHING That Is Said... ?!?

By Them And The Heads...
of Todays Governments...

And Gangs Now Hell Bent...
On Recruiting CHILDREN... !!!

To ENSURE Their Drug Movements...
... AREN’T Captured By Feds... !!!

And The RISE of NEW TECH...
Where Cash Like Most Humans
May Become... USELESS... ?!?

And Become POWERLESS...
To Indeed STAND AGAINST...

CORRUPTION And Functions...
... DYSTOPIAN Driven... !!!

A Future Where Children...
Are Simply FORBIDDEN...
From Making Protests...
Because of Swab Tests...
And Tracking That Shares...

EVERY... SINGLE Movement...
That They Make With Their Friends... !!!

This Is... JUST A POEM...
That Speaks On New Trends...
And Things That COULD...
SERIOUSLY... LIMIT CHOICES... !!!

UNLESS YOU ARE DOWN...
With What’s Going On Now...

To See Freedoms REMOVED...
And DICTATORSHIPS RULE...

While The TRUTH Is Confused...
And TWISTED By Crews...
Who Are FEEDING Us News...
That Is LEADING Us To...

A Future Where Freedom...
Is Left In The... Bleachers... !!!

A Future That SCARES... !!!

That DEFINES THIS POEM...
And The Vision It Shares...

of The Future Prospect...
of What May Just Come Next... ?

A World That’s ENSNARED...

In A.....

... “ DYSTOPIAN Nightmare “...
Just a few thoughts, after watching the first, Biden vs Trump debate, and more importantly, the incredibly biased, and sensationalised reporting, that has immediately followed...
Derek Raymond Mar 2017
Seven Hours

November 14th is three months prior to Cupid’s Day.
though we found Cupid long, long ago with your initials engraved in the golden tip
that drew my love like blood.
My ever changing initials stamped into a matching golden tip that struck you.
Saturday was the preface to walking into a sanctuary of a relationship.
I was enamored as Hell. Hammered by the rains of simple love that made me
thrive.
Saturday, November 14th, you gave me my virginity though some would say you took it.
Doused by Eros, we fumbled over zippers, chasing after one another’s heat
until, until we came across just what it was that got you & I
here.
To make me feel pure when all I’d ever been was ruined.
Chameleon clouds to my skin, you sifted through the
dead conversations, the aging and aching fantasies through the growing space between my legs.
November 14th, a week before you’re old.
A day where we undeniably grew through lives of
careers and retirements as the
hours
passed us by.
We became human in that room.
Then into adults simultaneously imitating functions of infant brains as we came to find our place among one another.
This is not tainted, distasteful obscenity.
This is clean preaching.

d.r. 11.17.15
David Ehrgott Dec 2015
The government sealed up freedom the other day
I guess the reason, so it wouldn't get away
They put up a smoke screen so we'd laugh at Tina Fey
All the while stepping in to take it all away
  
They bought the banks and businesses from Frisco to New York
And look who's talking through the mic, the biggest world-wide dork
Face the facts and slap your *** 'cause we're now communists
They'll be no more retirements for The United States Socialists
  
I know it's pretty uglier but, we just watch t.v.
Instead of getting off our duffs to keep our country free
As long as we have video games and blue-ray DVD's
Does anybody give a **** that we're all new commies
  
We let this happen to ourselves; Now tell me how could we
Pay six hundred million daily to our enemies  
And tell me Bill how you're still free when you averred on t.v.
"I set a time bomb to explode/implode economy"
  
These men in power, please agree, are quite sickening
They've made a mired mockery of a land that once was free
How can one be a capitalist when the country owns the banks
I'm ready to reload my gun, those ******s need thanks
  
copyright 2008 1 Armed Poet
The Fire Burns Dec 2017
Dollars and cents,
that make no sense,
the market bubble expands,
but is not based on supply and demand.

Retirements savings and hedge funds,
like the triggers of loaded guns,
when at last the bubble bursts,
that day will be black and the worst.

Worthless dollars in Mason jars,
dug up at night under the stars,
Wall Street dead, thrown in the hole,
greenbacks burned to trap their souls.

The rich stay rich, the rest are broke,
like turning wheels and bicycle spokes.
Eventually it comes around,
accompanied by gun shot sounds.

Broken futures and broken lives,
helped by governmental lies,
wealth is shared to nth degrees,
will be like ships on an empty sea.

So be smart and stock pile,
food, guns and bullets all the while,
have a place to go and hide,
zombie hoard is coming in stride.

Once the trucks stop rolling in,
they will commit acts of sin,
killing, stealing, **** and pillage,
in every city and every village.

So be prepared and trust a few,
get ready for perpetual stew,
what you can **** goes in the ***,
what you can grow will be what?

Compounds built and alliances formed,
there will be no choice in this storm,
and if we emerge on the other side,
we'll be self sufficient and full of pride.
As soon as you're born there’s no time at all
By the age of 15 your a kid no more
You’ll clean up their **** you’ll scrub the floor
You’ll hate your work  always begging NO MORE
You’ll ***** so much never having no fun
You’ll hate your ******* boss and The person you’ve become
You’ll cuss his mother you’ll call her a *****
But your still  broke and forever poor
Every day the same as before
A working class hero is something to be
Just open your ears and listen to me
Your back will hurt and they’ll test your ***
If you don’t go to college you’ll flip burgers for free
They’ll bend you over forget vaseline

Your  boss is a **** - so much **** you’ll  have to  take
A working class hero is something to be
Yes
A working class hero is something to be
They like em young they like them free
Paid in peanuts or even magic beans
Your just a number you’ll always be
**** you’re living the American dream
A working class hero is something to be
You work till your dead with bruises on your knees
They’ll beat you down
Until 63
You’ll never retire
Retirements not free
You’ll spend your life working
There’s never any time for “me”
A working class hero is something to be
strive to be the best you can be
Just like Bill Gates  you’ve gotta aspire and dream  always remember never settle for mediocrity        
                          BECAUSE!!!!
A working class hero is something to be
life is what you make it take it from me
Set to the song working class hero by the Beatles. I came up with this one night filled with boredom on a Sunday, dreading going back to work Monday morning to be just another working class hero.

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