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We do have a government, right?
by Ed Matlack → (All Poetry by Ed Matlack)
Saturday, January 20, 2018    Rated "G" by the Author.
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I ask not that my bed of death
From bands of greedy heirs be free;
For these besiege the latest breath
Of fortune's favoured sons, not me.


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 The US is closed for repairs & renovations,

Closing all its foundations & blaming their relations,

Are we not the only that has done this, nation?

At the very least just don’t release it to the media,

Let them go and find it in their encyclopedia…

 
Thankfully the government’s failure,

Doesn’t put us anywhere near a jailer,

Or should we be looking over our shoulders?

Are we not of this country, shareholders?

So nothing more than like a slow financial death,

Or maybe in the not so distant future,

We will be robbed of oxygen, even taxing the air we breath.

© -ed- 1/20/18

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 Reviews of "We do have a government, right?"
Reviewed by Susanne Leist
Reviewed on January 23, 2018
Our country is topsy-turvy. Nothing makes sense anymore. We just hang out an oversized "Closed" sign.

Reviewed on January 23, 2018
Oh, yeah! I'm with Tom all the way!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by John Domino
Reviewed on January 23, 2018
No business would close itself to spite itself.
Waste is all around in the millions it abounds.
They should stop all the cries and lies!
Better get back to business and stop catching flies.
Both sides are to blame in this "Hall of Shame"
So "Stop the Bull" and stop playing games!
Amen!



Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on January 21, 2018
Government may be temporarily closed, but that is not the big threat. The big threat is the encroachment of private enterprise (personal greed) on our government institutions and government controlled land and sea. As we chip away at the Peoples places for profit in the name of boosting our economy of waste, we gradually destroy the heritage of our forefathers saw fit to save from private exploitation.

Better stop the government and close it to head off the damage before it is done.

Ron

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on January 21, 2018
you are ever so write

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on January 21, 2018
The way our govt. is ran (or should I say not ran),
is truly absurd.
As ideology reigns,
compromise has become a dirty word.

Sometimes I think we the people should get to vote on the things that congress can't get done. If they can't do it, we sure as hell can.


Reviewed by Lark Pogue
Reviewed on January 21, 2018
I'm with Tom P. What a mess

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on January 21, 2018
Yeaaa! Ed, you have gotten to the gist of it, never mind that first paragraph.

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on January 21, 2018
The government is useless and now they have proved it.

Reviewed on January 20, 2018
No ED, we do Not have a government -

We have a crooked, rotten bunch of Rich,
Millionaire, Sons of Bitches, who don't care a
Flying Phuck about the little people, or this Nation !
All they care about is getting re-elected, and collectong more Graft !!!

Good poem, by the way ! 😻😜😻

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on January 20, 2018
I think that first paragraph just under the title was not written by moi', but by I think William Wordsworth


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