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OURS...
by Ed Matlack → (All Poetry by Ed Matlack)
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North of the border we live & play,

South we come to visit, not stay,

We ask that you treat the north also that way,

But it seems where you land it turns to decay…

 

Hey, we aren’t the bad guys here,

This, our country, is just that OURS,

We love to have “visitors” but you want more,

With governmental programs to you available,

It just seems you are stealing from the rich, to give to the poor…

 

I see you in food stores & I see you in Wal-mart,

I see your women on the streets acting like tarts,

Your children in our schools required to learn our language,

Take them home to their own country way down south,

Leave our streets and jobs to us, hey have a heart…

© ed 3/23/08


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Reviewed on March 24, 2008
With the "spoils" come the good and the bad. The worst being the corrupt Mexican Government that would not heed the need of their own people. A very sad and confusing pro/con situation. I may not agree, but stand strong for your right of expressing your thoughts (and probably thoughts of many others)! Hold tight, Ed...

Micke

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on March 24, 2008
Not sticking my neck out...Rufuz might eat me!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by Louisa Dobbins
Reviewed on March 24, 2008
...Ummmm...better

Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on March 24, 2008
If the damn conquistadores had stayed home, we will have had today a very advanced civilization as neighbors not wishing to invade our home and certainly not welcoming our invasion of theirs.
The malign breed that came to those shores came with the worst of man.
Don't blame the wet-back peon, but those holy men from Europe that condoned the most barbaric practices in the new world, and pilfering, and desecration and the destruction of everything civilized.
Today, we can't expect of a manhandled society to understand the rules of the game that they weren't allowed to play for so long.
Hunger and desperation can be a powerful force to go somewhere, when their oligarchs reap into their own pockets what the nation produces.

Georg

Reviewed by Cedric III
Reviewed on March 24, 2008
interesting.

i spent 3 months in the US in 2006.
i had a great time there.
my friends kept joking the whole time that i should just forget to leave... it works for the mexicans all the time.
i never realised until my stay in the states what an issue over staying is there
its interestng that people can come to a country and claim it to be theres, make good from all the benefits and yet not seem to contribute to the society in a good way...

this is an interesting piece.
im sure it could cause a lot of controversy though...

Reviewed by Ron (sketchman) Axelson (Reader)
Reviewed on March 23, 2008
They are really rude people..
Not all of them...though
Why does our Government want to
give them social security when they
are not even American
An American has to go through all kinds
of red tape to get SS they worked for.
I think our politicians are stupid, as is backwards..
Go figure?

Reviewed on March 23, 2008
Ed, whatch ya trying to do, start another civil war, did Rufuz bite you in the leg, and you caught rabies or what?


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