The Poor©2019TonyFallon0106
You can put up with the world's homeless hungry or protest
Accept this absurdity or stand up for the oppressed
No one ever should have to be without food or clothes
Or be living on the street in winter when it snows
Those are feeble people who feel betrayed and cheated
Beaten down by parents or bullies and feel defeated
Children dying from disease and severe malnutrition
Parents who can not afford medicine or a physician
And God forbid they should be let practice birth control
While hungry children beg for scrap of food in their bowl
No one seems to see the children rattle the empty plate
When they should be in some school learning with their schoolmate
Americans freeze on the street while Mr. Walton thrives
In India men treat cattle much better than their wives
Children bathe in rivers not much better than a sewer
Filled with rotten fruit, human waste and animal manure
The rich say that to get a job would be their salvation
But the sick the lame the blind have no proper education
People living in cardboard boxes and discarded wood crates
Or lying poorly dressed on the street for heat from exhaust grates
To alleviate misery some turn to cheap wine or rum
The rich do not have to see them living daily in a slum
How much better is life living in city housing projects?
Crowded in inferior housing with vermin and insects
The working middle class within weeks could feel the same effects
If they are laid off from their job and miss a few paychecks
Meanwhile good food gets dumped because of an expiration date
In this kinder gentler nation we so proudly populate.
You can put up with the world's homeless hungry or protest
Accept this absurdity or stand up for the oppressed
No one ever should have to be without food or clothes
Or be living on the street in winter when it snows
Those are feeble people who feel betrayed and cheated
Beaten down by parents or bullies and feel defeated
Children dying from disease and severe malnutrition
Parents who can not afford medicine or a physician
And God forbid they should be let practice birth control
While hungry children beg for scrap of food in their bowl
No one seems to see the children rattle the empty plate
When they should be in some school learning with their schoolmate
Americans freeze on the street while Mr. Walton thrives
In India men treat cattle much better than their wives
Children bathe in rivers not much better than a sewer
Filled with rotten fruit, human waste and animal manure
The rich say that to get a job would be their salvation
But the sick the lame the blind have no proper education
People living in cardboard boxes and discarded wood crates
Or lying poorly dressed on the street for heat from exhaust grates
To alleviate misery some turn to cheap wine or rum
The rich do not have to see them living daily in a slum
How much better is life living in city housing projects?
Crowded in inferior housing with vermin and insects
The working middle class within weeks could feel the same effects
If they are laid off from their job and miss a few paychecks
Meanwhile good food gets dumped because of an expiration date
In this kinder gentler nation we so proudly populate.
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