cut to the chase
the selfish bastards keep winning through
fear & keep cutting school funding to
keep Americans too dumb to know better
while lying about everything else
because if we can fund the ICE shitshow
for roughly eighteen billion a year then we
could provide free healthcare & free college
& even free electricity for all instead
but no, the tech bros & billionaires need
tax cuts more than you need a decent
retirement at 67 or 78 or 85 so I guess
we all need to rely on TikTok & GoFundMe
if we really want to get things done &
keep grandma off the street & Cousin Kenny
out of crippling medical debt but isn't
that what we want our government to be,
each of us helping the other out so we rise
together instead of playing this crooked game
of I-got-mine-at-your-expense-so-now-
I'll-screw-you-over-just-for-shits but anyway
please send your non-tax deductible donations
via Venmo to @mwschmeer because even old
ranty poets who refuse to rhyme need more
than thoughts & prayers to fund their Roth IRAs