Great Poetry

[Brian37]

Strip Mining, (aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on Twitter)


You are not a shovel

You are not a wrench

You are not there

To simply make them rich


It is all a ploy

Make you sweat

Dangle the carrot

You will never get


Then they throw tantrums

Crying robbery

Merely because you want

Human dignity


Tell me how much

You are suffering

In your downtown penthouse

While the pay gap keeps exploding


Masturbating over

Third world cheap labor

Wanting to replicate it here

Throwing crumbs of cheap oil


In a hunderd years

Your extraction market

Will cost our planet more

And hurt our species more


Quit your strip mining

Quit claiming morality

Merely because of your tax bracket

Making excuses for your greed.


We are not your tools

Merely for you to use

We are not shovels

We are not your dirt


Rise up rise up

Workers arround the world

It is no longer about boarders

It is about our global market


We are being pitted

Against each other

By those with the money

Those with the power


Trickel up is golbal

You and I are shovels

Sold the idea

To be their slave labor


Rise up rise up

Put money it it's place

Not to rid the private sector

Just ot get it to behave


No more strip mining

Humans are not mere numbers

We are not here for you

To simply make you rich.


We are not your tools

Born to make you rich

We are human beings

Who merely want to live
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Also posted here post #519 http://www.rationalresponders.com/forum/31771?page=10