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Work - a - day Men
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Politics, a game of deception

Seven little men


All abruptly awakened


By the clicking of hens


Marched off to work


Not one, was a clerk


Cell phones at the ready


To cope with opportunites, heady


None of them was named Freddy


Arriving at work before eight


So as not to be a minute late


Two occupied office cubby holes


Two baked bread


And made jelly rolls


Two spent the day


Riding the streets in patrol cars


Drinking coffe and eating jelly rolls


The seventh would do none of these


For he played in a band


Of one-hundred thieves


His work was in the Senate


Mr. Senator, if you please


Drawing from the six, his pay


Those that labored long


Throughout the day


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 Reviews of "Work - a - day Men"
Reviewed on January 25, 2008
Very well penned, Jon. Indeed. I'd love to live on what they make, instead of the next to nothing VA disability check!!!!

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on January 24, 2008
Excellent political poem, this goes along with Georg Mateos haiku, calling election "All Liars day" ;-)

ciao
et

Reviewed by Christine Alwin
Reviewed on January 24, 2008
a very strong message,,in such a creative way, very well done.
Christine


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