Census Image Courtesy the American Bar Association

Consensus

Once every 10 years the counting begins,

finding out who is on the outs and ins.

It is time to carefully make a count,

to find out what this country is all about.

Counting determines exactly where citizens live.

So there is no speculation or excuses to give.

Counting determines the who, what and where,

before the politicians begin gerrymandering there.

Our country isn't round, oblong or square,

fair representation isn't neatly just there.

it's a messy business of drawing the districts,

based on the numbers that the counting predicts.

We can't go back to where the country was before,

the established always resent new arrivals more,

but the country was built on the backs of the new,

while the established profits from the work they do.

Vitality of a country is based on its youth,

not on strict morality of a bygone lost truth.

A melting pot of new ideas and hard work,

work that the established seek ways to shirk.

Can we all come together and get the facts?

Find out where the money is to fairly tax,

the wealthy in favor of sharing with the poor.

So much better than trickle-down before.

Don't lie when you get your census request,

for if you tell them the truth it will be best.

This country was made great by telling the truth,

it behooves all of us to cast aside the uncouth.

And I believe you know who they are.

Copyright 2023 © Ronald W. Hull

8/25/23

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