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"Entitle Meant"
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
22 Jan 2013
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by Raymond Nat Turner

“Entitlement meant you worked your asses off

No big ‘bailouts’ at the corporate trough”

 

"Entitle Meant"

by Raymond Nat Turner

 

Entitlement meant you worked your asses off

Like a guide dog trained by Pavlov

 

Entitlement meant drippin' pearls of sweat

No Swiss Bank Account, yacht, or Learjet

 

Entitlement meant you worked your asses off

No big "bailouts" at the corporate trough

 

Entitlement meant slavin' nine to five

Not that bankster "too big to fail" jive

 

Entitlement meant livin' hand-to-mouth

Like in the "right to slave" South

 

Entitle meant terribly skewed ratio--

Of 400:1 pay, worker to CEO...

 

Entitle meant more fiscal hanky-panky--

Tiny Tim Geithner-Osama Ben Bernanke

 

Entitle meant parasites makin' their bones

Off derivatives and sub-prime loans

 

Entitle meant bribes for political actors--

Cost overruns of klepto-contractors

 

NO to the "fiscal cliff" and other shams

Of extortionists runnin' Madoff scams!

Raymond Nat Turner can be contacted at Raymond (at) upsurgejazz.com.

 

Raymond Nat Turner (c) 2012 All Rights Reserved

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