tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294584625103651012012-03-06T04:21:04.064-08:00FICTION IN FACTSFace to Face.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06583599904118757689noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529458462510365101.post-16270294281794008762012-03-05T03:28:00.000-08:002012-03-05T03:30:58.107-08:002012-03-05T03:30:58.107-08:00Facts in Fiction.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Poverty is back and on track for a fact, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The children are starving, time to change the tact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Bono is one, who created the pun to pull in the mon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> A concert for sure to feed all the poor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> So Bono my man do you have another plan, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A concert a day could keep hunger at bay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> However my question, is it just for evasion, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The worst famine in sixty years would need a little more persuasion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Their colorful cloths contrast the hot sand,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Mothers with babies hold out their hand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They form a long queue to a receive meager due,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> While most people with food don´t even have a clue. Why should they starve while fat cat´s sun in the Algarve, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Their bodies of bone could be crushed by a stone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The rebels have weapons and stopping the aid trucks, These people don´t have oil or precious metals so who gives a f**k. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Their faces are pure their body´s age prematurely,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> What is but a hand full of grain, it´s nothing surely? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The food arrives, their faces alive with fear,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> They rush to the queue, so near yet so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> So com´on you fat cats don´t buy that luxury car,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Give it to the poor as you know it will go far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> So ladies of rich men give up your next flight,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Give it to the poor so they can sleep at night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Will the floods and the monsoon, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bring more days of gloom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As the handful of rice will soon be twice the price,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> They stand in long queues for a merge slice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Their tin cups empty while the rest have a plenty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Now the one percent as occupy wall street will vent,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> That the rich must know; as the message is sent,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> That the tax to pay is for all to say,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Pay your due and shorten the queue</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">.</span></div>
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/529458462510365101-1627029428179400876?l=politicinpoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Face to Face.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06583599904118757689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529458462510365101.post-87376235969780501292012-03-05T03:24:00.002-08:002012-03-05T03:31:38.567-08:002012-03-05T03:31:38.567-08:00<span style="background-color: #575b65; color: #cedbdf; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The man from the IMF was quite shrewd, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">According to Vogue quite a dude,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> In his luxury suite of which he could afford,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> He and the housemaid struck quite a cord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> She maid/made a point of telling the boss,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> That, that rich man had not paid for her loss,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> She kept on her person the evidence for certain,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> And his long career brought down by the infamous curtain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Now the shackles of justice were turning him lose,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Hiding in the wings she looked like a moose,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> While spiking her man she got quite a tan,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> In France, was she part of the plan? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> She was quick with her plot,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> She beat the fat guy to the spot,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> While the former chief was struck by grief,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> His DNA taken by a thief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Now the wife she was cool and by no means a fool,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Stick by your man is all part of the plan,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Pretty and all she stood quite tall,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Supported poor hubby who was taking the fall. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Back in France was another by chance,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Who paraded herself as part of the dance, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Is this, one would think, the end of the line,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> For a powerful man who got caught, for more than a dime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Back in Greece there was no peace, and in default for sure,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The bailout money wasn´t going to the poor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As Merkel was focused on giving Greece the handle,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Her President alas, was caught in a scandal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Politics for sure is not for the poor,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As politicians parade in black designer suits,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Your tax money for sure is already en-route.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The hotels at the top have reserved the best spot,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Your tax money has been earmarked for that particular slot.</span></div>
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