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An embarrassment lay before the trustees feet.

No courage, no diplomacy from the ivory seats.

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They bicker and fight at the masses expense,

Void of logic this makes absolutely no sense.

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Elected to do all the peoples good work,

To captain the ship with nary a perk.

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Not to be so, as their pockets belie,

They weakened the law and stole all the pie.

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Neither a sliver did they take nor merely a slice,

They keep going back many times more than twice.

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Still as cattle to the polls we can’t help but repeat,

As if we were held to the fire by our feet.

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When will the swarm awaken from their dream,

To see that this always has been part of the scheme.

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Divide up the nation into haves and have nots,

Feed those without means into the haves corporate plot.

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This countries demise may be its own wretched greed,

Blind or not caring for a citizenry in need.

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Many poor have been baited that less gives you more,

A theory disproved by many before.

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Even Greenspan did admit that “trickle down” was a farce,

The wealth it went up, but the trickle fell sparse.

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Thirty years on, on the brink of collapse,

Austerity it is as we watch prosperity lapse.

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But still the Gipper’s name is held up enshrined,

His legacy it ticks like a bomb out of time.

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~