Black Poetry : Paper Tiger

skrybble7

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Paper Tiger feeding on greed and hedonism
Paper tracks and trails leading to a paper religion
We the people we the oddity odd to see we go from
we the citizen to we the consumer even we the low wage
no rage so complacent less than paper commodity
Soft and decadent
Human sons and daughters transformed from humanity
to insanity to so much corporate fodder
fish food for bottom feeders
less than human conditions inside the fallacy
inside the illusion of human names
in reality we the paper children inhabit
paper numbers alpha-numerically placed in paper social positions
we the organic origami bent and folded to molds of corruption
given paper ears all the better to hear placating deception
to hear words like “more jobs” and fail to translate the falsehood
it’s all good more positions at Burger King and the Gap
“more jobs” means less jobs with living wages less job security
While entire industries are either shipped overseas or simply
given away
More paper rules guiding the way the paper tiger plays
Corporations declared decades long wars on workers on a paper nation
Importing exploitation wage workers and exporting jobs with good pay
“Free Trade” means a corporate give away so they can pocket more of
what they should pay to American workers that they abandoned
and nothing’s random in the paper database
“Global Economy” means the inescapable grinding down of American wages
Paper cages to incarcerate the mind to be blind to any divine truth
We the People are fed the illusion
While the paper tiger feeds off the confusion
Pay us less and less at the same time charge us more and more
For food and water that gets more polluted everyday
“why my fish got mercury in it?”
“If cars can run off the sun then why they still make ‘em with gas?”
“And why is gas prices so high?”
Paper rules for paper fools
America the beautiful
America the blessed by God
America the dutiful
America the super power
Owes trillions of dollars that grow by the hour
To countries that just like so called “American” corporations
Just don’t have the REAL interest of this once mighty country
transformed paper nation at heart
Paper politicians controlled by corporations sell the soul of this country
For a few more dollars tell a few more deceptions
“lobby” is just another way to yank their paper collar
So that “national security” only means Corporate and elite false sense of security
Even after 9/11 ports are still wide open because the paper profits got to flow
North and South borders are still wide open so that anyone can slip through
And every enemy on the sneak tip is hip to this too
But the paper power in their paper towers don’t care
As long as their pockets get fatter
Nothing else really matters
So the once great nation of We the People
Is being gutted and de-clawed and defanged all in the name of paper
And the truth is any real predator on the global Serengeti…
when they’re ready... can tare through a paper tiger
faster than you can say “papier mache’ ”

Map ‘06
 
skrybble7 said:
Paper Tiger feeding on greed and hedonism
Paper tracks and trails leading to a paper religion
We the people we the oddity odd to see we go from
we the citizen to we the consumer even we the low wage
no rage so complacent less than paper commodity
Soft and decadent


Map ‘06


Hard Hitting scribe, Skyribble. On the mark, also.

Makes you wanna ((HOLLER)) :explode:
 
WOW poet of the week.. this rips with truth. Well thought out and the flow itself is awesome. Its a five....star and five
:welldone: :welldone: :welldone: :welldone: :welldone:'s
 

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