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~

[RJM]

And to think that the world had such big hopes for Obama, what a run he's had the past few years. Hopefully he would still be able to fix this conundrum of his. Great poem and a justifiable "rant" against the government that focuses more on events abroad than at home.

[Arabdha]

heart-felt and honest..a beautiful note for the human conscience..Magdelena directed me here..said the poem was wonderful..couldn't agree more !

[Magdelena]

The one thing, of many, I like about you is that you speak with heart, passion and most of all, soul. Deep inside of you is a voice that has wings and it flies through our hearts and minds and brings us that touch of ray, hope, that we all need in our lives. This was amazing, no other word for it.. Okay there is.. Brilliant? Yes... For you are the voice of the people. For many of us hear the words, feel the words and sometimes don't know how to speak the words.. In thoughts we lash out against our society, yet I so wish we all can go down to the fat man's house.. (Our darling leaders) and give them hell just as they are giving it to us. At the end of this piece I was all but standing and screaming 'Hell yes!' out loud..

Coyote you so rock!!

Mags xx

[John Jackson (El Juero)]

I care, Coyote. Doing what I can, always room to do more. Gracias.

[Katie]

What strong words. Here in Canada we are feeling the pain of high gass prices as well. Felt more like a rant than poetry, but I think that is where the strength came from in this peice. For once I was distracted completely from my search for gramatical/technical errors. Good work

[Desert Dreamer]

I feel this anger and fear...you speak truth. I believe we must stand together and do something more than what we are doing. The rich are getting rich and the poor and middle class are paying for it. I, too, have been listening to "Everybody Knows". It is time to act. I care too much to not act. I can feel the emotions and passion rising, people are getting angry...I hope there is a change soon, who will be the one to start the demonstrations? It won't be the rich, that is for sure, they are getting rich off of the rest of us. I am willing to act in whatever way is necessary, I just haven't figured out what to do yet.

Great writing here. Powerful words.

[?]

Very interesting Coyote, very well thought out and written.
It is bad when you cant afford groceries because you had to buy gas to put in the car.
Always giving us something to think about. I love that.
Great piece

[MuSe Ampoule]

Thank you for writing this. It says it all.

[Robin]

everybody knows ... few realize ...

you pour out your heart my friend , your words always to think about ..

kudos to Cohen ...