Everybody knows

I awoke pissed off today. Then my Poet of music Leonard Cohen set me off to describe my emotion.

                
                 
                  
                   (I borrow a few lines from Leonard Cohen.
                        Sometime we need to learn emotion and feelings
                        from people who lived a long life.)



                                    "Everybody knows"


Mr. President.

Did you see the gas prices?
Poor people making minimum wage won't be giving lunch money
to their kids.
Will be eating ramen noodles for lunch at work.
Must decide to fill gas tank or pay bills.

"Poor cities in the USA are getting the left over."
Do you give a s**t?
The bloody rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

Gas companies made biggest profit the past year ever by sucking the last dollar and hope
from the people. The oil company sells us the oil they bought six months or more ago at highest price they can get and no-one cares..

Where are you Mr. President?

"Was the fight already fixed."
We have a rich man president?

Everybody knows.

House representatives. 435 men and woman.

I saw your budget.
1.1 billion for food and office.
2.3 million per representative to live on.

How many people have nothing in your states?
How many people are homeless?
Are the schools teaching the future of the USA properly?
Do you walk your streets and see the pain?

No equality in the USA yet.
Babies being born in the poor cities.
With one foot in the grave at the beginning.

Wars are being fought.
No-one  knows why we are fighting anymore?

Contractors got 465 billion dollars and cost of war over a trillion.
The rich man knows why.
Poor man born to serve at eighteen.
Hell of a world!
When going to war is better then to swim in the waste and s**t.


Senate.

I won't waste words on them.
I hear "here or there of them."
A group of useless people serving their needs.


       I pray
I pray to the sky, the water and the earth.
Sent wisdom to the men in-charge.
Please insure all children have food in their belly.
Please lord of life and earth.
Insure all children have a warm bed to sleep in.
Please lord.
Give opportunity and strength to the people in need.
We need a miracle.
War and hate is controlling my world.
Please sent some Angels of love and peace to assist.
We could use them today.
                             Thank you 
   
I awoke with fear.
I fear for tomorrow.
What will our children have left?
What have we done?
I hated my father for doing nothing.
Now am I any better?
I believe I did less.
Will my children despise me for doing nothing.

It is time to yell.
Write to the leaders. All of them.
Demonstrate in the streets.
Gas prices will be $4.00 a gallon.
Poor man will pay for the greed of the rich man controlling the USA.

             Everybody knows.

Does anyone care?

                             Coyote

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Author's Note

I borrow a few lines from Cohen. In the old days words could change the world. Today money and oil controlled the world. It is time we all give a shit about our world. What will you tell your children when they ask. Why are people homeless and the world so hard?

Reviews

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

Leonard is the soul of the human conscience~you couldn't have picked anyone better to open the wound from which your own pain flowed~
this is the world~ there are the few at the top of the madness perpetrating atrocious crimes against humanity~perhaps not on perceived grand levels of physical torture~ but one more insidious~ the wreckage of the human mind and the human soul~ they love to break the spine and create flexible consumers~ more and more are becoming aware of the manipulation and less and less are tolerating the injustices wrought by the greedy little control freaks~ sad to observe that here in this country we have elected them~believing/aching to believe every promise of hope and change when in the end "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely"~ your poem is a call to becoming conscious HUMANE BEINGS again~ bravo~

[Shante Payne]

This is dead on...I can't even answer your question. Does anyone care? I don't really think so. The poor mope and accept it and the rich just keep collecting. I salute you on this and I agree..."Its time to YELL!!!"

[cherie]

I liked it so true and right to the point. The cost of gas is crazy. we are at 3.45 a gallon here..and it sure doesn't seem like the president cares about the people, times have been alot tougher since he came to office thats for sure.

[Quinn Blackburn]

Amen! Brilliant, honest, evocative, compassionate and impassioned... a peaceful call to arms for all Humanity really. One very minor editing thought, perhaps "send" instead of "sent" in the "I pray" section? An instant favorite and a marvelous wordcrafting from first line to last. excellent work!

[DarkAngelWriter]

I want to start by saying, I never read poems because they annoy the hell out of me. As an 18 year old in high school, it's generally what I'm subjected to.

That being said, I willfully clicked on this poem, seeing the reference to Leonard. This piece tugged at my heart, made me a little sick, and made my opinions of my parents change. I am slightly resentful of them for doing nothing; but really, what can they do? I'm glad someone cares, and I'm glad someone is speaking out, but like you say, words no longer change the world.

Thank you for this read. I rather enjoyed it.

[Fran Marie]

"Was the fight already fixed."
We have a rich man president

This piece says it all and yes, I do believe it is already fixed ~ I didn't vote for this president, yet either way it doesn't matter it is already decided at the top, they just let us peons think we have a say and let us have the game~ it's only going to get worse as I see it ~ a damn sad situation for all...great write!

[Some Random Person.]

sure does show what the majority of the population is going through... But we did elect a president who did cause all this. My parents, because I was, and still am unable to vote, voted against him. Haven't you noticed something else? ALL the presidents are male, and with only one exception, all white. Good Poem

I couldn't agree more .... everybody knows and those who do not , it is high time that they did . Great write .

[poetic soul]

truly profound! very less people really write such stuff these days...this is an eye opener...why dont you publish this in some weekly mag. or newspaper or journal where many can read it...

[Dream Weaver]

I can't tell you how poignant this write is my friend...
Truly a profound and genuine piece of work...
Bravo!

[Allan Eddings]

Your anguish - indeed it could be said the anguish of most people - is simply and austerely conveyed in this piece; unadorned in prose or poesy it is stark and bare ... seemingly howling at the moon for wont of an audience, for wont of someones attention. Your pieces are always passionate and sincere, and I enjoy them for that fact alone.

Congratulations and thank you.

Sincerely,
A.E.