The Obama Serenades – Part XXIII
[Well-done, Mr. President! On the landmark passage of the comprehensive Health-Insurance Reform Package by the United States' House of Representatives – 11/7/09]
Greedy parasites
sit on the gray margins
of history
tight-fisted
with sullen faces
brazenly
feasting on
public dole,
waging countless
and pointless
wars
in the name
of peace and
liberty….
Dropping
pestilential
payloads of
death and
misery
on those who
must answer
for the bloody
misdeeds
of desperate
clansmen and
kinswomen
provoked
to mayhem
by blind and
insensate
wealth….
A blight of
inexorable
greed palls
the land,
like locusts
ere sheaves
are hauled –
the well-heeled
and jackbooted
are armed
with flypaper
even as
they rue
and
curse
their chance
kinship
with the woefully
deprived….
Still,
the dawn
of a new era
of friendship
and fellow-feeling
is heavily
upon us,
the triumph
of humanity
over
abject
depravity….
11/8/09
Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.
Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD, taught Print Journalism at Nassau Community College of the State University of New York, Garden City, for more than 20 years. He is also a former Book Review Editor of The New York Amsterdam News.
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