POEM: Redistributive Irony
This was produced for the CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge. The inspirational artwork is by French artist Cyril Rolandi, and is titled “Follow The Rules.”
REDISTRIBUTIVE IRONY
Beneath the twisted money tree
where everything is yours for free,
Well everything which those you gave
power to give chose not to save,.
So now the helpless, due to age
or who inaccurately gauge
both good and bad, come trusting forth
to have bestowed what life is worth.
But who will get what’s not blown off
by winds of circumstantial doff?
The secret held by those who lead
is they’re the ones who get first feed.
Another secret on the breeze:
the money does not grow on trees.
But either earned by those below,
or leined against future escrow.
The debt is there as leaves on trees
pruned by greedy beaurocracies,
the rest allowed to fall to earth
to those fooled into grateful mirth.
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Copyright December 21st 2013 RGD