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Wall Street, My Street

Fri, 2006-09-15 15:07 — billyjones

I first wrote this poem in 2003 and posted it to my blog, BloggingPoet.com but considering the current economic state of my neighborhood I thought it would bear repeating. Thank you. -Billy Jones

Dreams strewn ‘cross the sidewalk
piled high for the truck to come
to pick them up, haul them off:
a family, hopes undone.
Again, we wander lonely
a life of hell begun.
A chance, we wanted only.
Could nothing have been done?

Clear Channel’s playing music
but they’ll not play this song.
Clear Channel banks on Wall Street
while my street struggles on.
And Sony’s selling records,
cheat the artists out their say
while the people watch reality TV.

9-11 Changed Everything

Tue, 2006-09-12 20:09 — billyjones

9-11 changed me. 9-11 changed all of us, but 9-11 didn't change everything. Five years later everything that was wrong with the world then is still wrong with the world today-- governments still plan the destruction of other governments, young men and women still die so a greedy few can take what they want, children world over are still starving, AIDs, Malaria, and other infectious diseases still kill millions, endangered species are still endangered, the environment continues to suffer, and entire populations are still duped into believing that God by whatever name they choose to call God, commands us to destroy any who call God by any other name. And the politicians on the left and the right are still fattening themselves at the expense of children that have yet to be born. Fact is: 9-11 didn't change much at all except for the fact that scared Americans became bigger fools than we already were.

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