Who Fired Ronald McDonald?

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. - Thoreau

refusing to bow for informal introductions

unwilling to give in

your name mud

trail dry like a raisin

you ate the first french fry and the last piece of apple pie

choking on yet another lie

where went the rhyme

where went the time

where went the peace sign along with peace of mind

you asked yourself, "why?"

why is it better to die than cry

better to tell the truth than lie

better to kneel when you kiss the sky

the other shoe won't drop

pinko lights and carmine signs never stop

market is closed

manifesto composed

body decomposed

world opposed

somewhere lost in the throws

when is the beginning the end and the end the beginning

how do you know when you're winning

who puts up the tents at an unfair

is it the same one who takes them down

who paints the smile on a disemboweled clown

how come when you need a friend

there's never one around

who fired ronald mcdonald

now i have to scream into a speaker

as the meek get meeker

with one shoe and one sneaker

whilst the rich and powerful get smoother and sleeker

Author's Note

"I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

"why is it better to die than cry
better to tell the truth than lie
better to kneel when you kiss the sky"

[Sami Khalil]

Fired, demoted, expired...The powers that be, no justice for thee, laughingstock with glee...
Poor Ronald, Donald and even Arnold...
Winners and losers, rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak...
A powerful message...

[Pete]

a serving of some truth we know. if you have a recipe for secret sauce you're good to go ... :)

[Sami Khalil]

Hehehe! You are welcome sir Pete....

[Sami Khalil]

"there's never one around
who fired ronald mcdonald
now i have to scream into a speaker
as the meek get meeker
with one shoe and one sneaker
whilst the rich and powerful get smoother and sleeker"