FOURTH OF JULY POEM

Stepped on pissed on

Cheated and abused

Taken advantage of blue collar man

Caught up in the American scam

 

Don’t tell me anyone can be

Anything they want to be

If they put their mind to it

 

Save you BS for the deaf

Dumb and blind
It'll never sell in the ghetto

Or to the immigrants

You’ve turned your back on

 

Take your message to the church

Tell it to the man on death row

Tell it to the starving poor

Tell it to the sick and lame

Tell it to the rich folks

Tell it to the politicians

Tell it to the serial killers

Tell it to Wall Street

 

Tell it to the man on the gallows

Tell it to the chiseled faces

On Mount Rushmore

 

Tell it to the street whore

Tell it to the crack head

Tell it to the last wino

On  desolation row

 

Tell it to the banker

Tell it to the butcher

Tell it to the unemployed

 

Tell it to the circus clown

Tell it to the insane

Tell it to the outlaw

 

Tell it to the panhandler

Tell it to the con man

Tell it to the baby
Found stuffed in a dumpster

 

Tell it to the displaced factory worker

Tell it to the elderly

Tell it to the Repo Man

Tell it to the last alien
Hiding out in Roswell

 

Tell it to the militia

Tell it to the FBI sharpshooters

At Ruby Ridge

Tell it to the arsonists

At Waco, Texas

 

Tell it the Indians at Standing Rock

Tell it to the junkie

With dry heaves

 

Tell it to the farm worker

Tell it to the dishwasher

Tell it to the orderlies

Tell it to the flag waver

Tell it to the coal miner
Dying from black lung disease

Tell it to the Chinese peasant
Toiling in the rice fields

For a dollar a day

 

Tell it to the garment worker

Slaving away in sweat shops

In Chinatown and the Latin Quarter

 

Tell it to the garbage man

Tell it to big business

Tell it to Corporate America

Tell it to the Supreme Court

Tell it to the blood stained NRA

 

Tell it to the Fascist President

Tell it to the oil barons

Tell it to the tobacco merchants

 

Tell it to the fur industry

Who club baby seals to death

For the clothing merchants

 

Tell it to the Vatican

Tell it to the Priests

Tell it to the battered wives of America

 

Tell it to big “Pharma”

Profiting off the sick and lame

Tell it to the millions of people

Dying from air pollution

In Mexico, China and India

 

Tell it to the man on his deathbed

Not sure why he lived

Or what he is dying for

 

Tell it to Jesus Christ

Shout it to the stars

Line the traitors up against the wall

Rewrite the Ten Commandments

And start all over again