{"id":113754,"date":"2013-12-21T22:59:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T03:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/113754\/poem-redistributive-irony\/"},"modified":"2013-12-21T22:59:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T03:59:18","slug":"poem-redistributive-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/113754\/poem-redistributive-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Redistributive Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>This was produced for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/113745\/simple-sunday-picture-challenge-contemplates-a-tree-of-life\/#comment-336378\">CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge<\/a>. \u00a0The inspirational artwork is by French artist Cyril Rolandi, and is titled &#8220;Follow The Rules.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/113745\/simple-sunday-picture-challenge-contemplates-a-tree-of-life\/#comment-336378\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px none #e1e1e1;padding: 2px;color: #454545;line-height: normal;text-align: center;margin: 0px auto 8px;cursor: -webkit-zoom-in;width: 1095px;height: 730px;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;background-color: #dae5d6\" src=\"http:\/\/th04.deviantart.net\/fs71\/PRE\/f\/2013\/354\/1\/7\/follow_our_rules_by_aquasixio-d6ynbbs.jpg\" alt=\"Follow Our Rules by AquaSixio\" width=\"1095\" height=\"730\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"6\"><strong>REDISTRIBUTIVE IRONY<\/strong><\/font><font size=\"4\"><strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"> Beneath the twisted money tree<br \/>\n where everything is yours for free,<br \/>\n Well everything which those you gave<br \/>\n power to give chose not to save,.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">So now the helpless, due to age<br \/>\n or who inaccurately gauge<br \/>\n both good and bad, come trusting forth<br \/>\n to have bestowed what life is worth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But who will get what&#8217;s not blown off<br \/>\n by winds of circumstantial doff?<br \/>\n The secret held by those who lead<br \/>\n is they&#8217;re the ones who get first feed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Another secret on the breeze:<br \/>\n the money does not grow on trees.<br \/>\n But either earned by those below,<br \/>\n or leined against future escrow.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font size=\"5\"> The debt is there as leaves on trees<br \/>\n pruned by greedy beaurocracies,<br \/>\n the rest allowed to fall to earth<br \/>\n to those fooled into grateful mirth.<br \/>\n .<\/font><br \/>\n <font size=\"3\"> Copyright December 21st 2013 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><font face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was produced for the CPC Simple Sunday Picture challenge. \u00a0The inspirational artwork is by French artist Cyril Rolandi, and is titled &#8220;Follow The Rules.&#8221; 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}