America Betrayed!

I scribbled this bit of doggerl the other day, and thought y'all might enjoy it, though I'm anything but a poet.


America has been betrayed
By the politicians' corporate greed,
And by a President, who's only creed
Is "Get the oil! No need for trade,
We want control, so let's invade!"

The neo-cons' agenda's weighed
In the moral balance, and found wanting,
Like the Nazis, who still are haunting
The concience of a world decayed,
A world where compassion's been mislaid.

For long the corporations preyed
On the cheapest labour they could find,
And "Profit Only!" they've enshrined,
While those who work are underpaid,
Who slave away with pen, or spade.

The politicians masquerade
As pious saviours, while they steal
The nations sweat, and then conceal
The avarice of their charade,
While responsibility they evade.

But now the truth has been displayed,
Though we've just begun to recognize
The wolves who long were in disguise;
We're not just sheep, we're not afraid,
And we WILL NOT let our country fade!

Nice, this thread may have to go to the red room later though

I would have been more impressed by this had I read it a couple of years ago, it does sum up the rhetoric of many posters we get in the red room, but when I compare it in that way, it sounds cliche and unorigonal.

Maybe if you were to speak it aloud, dub over GWB making a speech or some TV news report type montage it would have more impact to me.