The Personal Is Poetical: Politics

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I Hoped I’d Get Care

Obama Promised Me Care

Now I wait and Wait

–Jenise Borrasso

Get your face out of

Myspace and move on dot org

This does not compute

–Chuck Reuben

Would Feng Shui my home.

So poor, I can only afford

government chi.

Liberal haiku. What

do you call a bird with no

wings? America.

You captains. You kings.

Feudal systems became

Democracy. No change.

–Zachary Kluckman

Butterflies flutter

Happy existential whirl

Asters welcome you

–Margaret King

Lent me forty grand

for a Liberal Arts degree.

Joke’s on you, G-Men!

–Jordan Ganz

sex on the bosque

you have your anal campaign

mayor, i have mine

–Mike L

Government shutdown

Look who has all the money

So why should they care.

–Dennis L. Gray

Left, Right, Centrist, Wrong

Apathy, just go along

Where is the light bulb?

–Leesa McVay

Your corner. Your sign.

Don’t know your life though I’m sure

it was worse than mine.

–J Garcia

Sorry you’re not rich,

I am, dirty working stiff.

Screw you, life’s a bitch.

–Ray Nance

Maria

Not far from Baghdad,

Her husband’s hand touches the

Last letter from home.

–Richard M. Fye

Crowded bus at stop

Woman in wheelchair waiting

Still, nobody moves.

–Kim Adonna

U-S-A

Embedded crowds cheer,

while the citizens stay home

weighing their options.

–Denise Claeys

justify your fears

Anxiety Politics

gimme an excuse

–Chris Chapin

There’s no "they" or "them,"

it’s just more confused people

in a random world

–Chris Chapin

Who elected that guy?

Greed never ceases to find

New ways to rob us

–Mark Nolan

It’s about time

I be running this bugger

I thought all darn night

–Mark Nolan

Seven deadly sins

Are still in the media

Daily glorified

–Mark Nolan

They are all liars

Brainwashing you to submit

Give us more money

–Levi B

November nineteen

Mothers holding tiny hands

Vote AGAINST at polls

–Sylvia Ramos Cruz

Killed a dog

with my car

realized people were watching

–Jacob Trujillo

like barnyard chickens

politicians cluck away

scratching the surface

–todd eddy

Pro-Life Invaders.

Infesting. Sneaking. Crawling.

Stay out of our wombs.

–Soni Buda

Dear Tara and Bud,

Burque is quite done with you

Go abort yourselves.

–Jamie Phillips

I was late to class

my teacher was mat at me

so I left the room

–Julian Ochoa

Vote for Heisenberg!

He got more done in two years

than House or Senate

–Gabe Montoya

this robot is huge

watch out, he might step on you

you won’t have a clue

–Jonathan Lopez

Martinez may look

smart, but can She really see

Russia from her house?

–Richard Wolfson

Recalcitrant moon,

like the government shutdown,

no tides come today.

–Richard Wolfson

City with no soul

How did peace and love exit

Replaced by guns and greedheads

–Bill Diven

Future in the womb,

Two small hands to grasp a dream,

To just be removed

–Alberto

Future in the womb,

Two small hands to grasp a dream,

To just be removed.

–Alberto Zarate

Politics Party

Donkeys Elephants Shit-show

Harshing my Mellow

–Chris Patchett

We demand that men

fully share all household chores

and child-rearing.

Exactly who makes

money worth more than paper

and those who print it?

Fuck the F.B.I.

for bombing Judi Bari

and state-sanctioned crime

Medals of honor

to U.S. soldiers for their

Wounded Knee killings?

Freedom is something

you have to take for yourself-

not handed to you.

Trading privacy

for security is is dumb

a bankrupt bargain

Much of national

security is a waste

of money and time.

We don’t win freedom

through security systems

or cryptography

We win freedom by

living every day freely

no matter the threat

–Jessica Mills

Swat a mosquito —

Break government property:

Thousand bucks per drone.

–Ronald Reed

Women save their choice

Fetus fetishists lose one

Roe v.[vee] Wade’s O.K.

–Peter B. Ives

Fuck your idea

Go back to Kansas. With love,

A true Burquena

–Zoe Northcutt

Red or green chili

Served with red/blue politics –

Please vote with some taste

–Jeffrey Hertz

Mayors or Congress

They’ll never give up the perks

We’re completely screwed

–Mark E. Lujan

Racial profiling

Something you don’t care about

Til you’re targeted

Save the trees people!!!

Save the oceans and the air

Future people care

–Jamal Molina

small wins are big wins..

fighting big corporations..

grab them when you can..

ever vigilant..

agents search the passenger..

ninety four and white..

hard times hit us all..

downsizing is evident..

shorter t.p. rolls…

his head in the sand..

our mayor watches our town..

wrong eye is blinking…

layers peeled reveal..

republican ideas..

in democrat’s soul..

the haves and have nots…

a chasm getting deeper…

bridges rent and tossed…

–cindy cohen

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