Slim Riches
It’s well known that fortune’s never an even thing
When some vertebrates are paperbacks
Thinner than Stephen King
And other spineless, yellow bellies
In need of their square pants
Soak up everything, including a fair chance
Rare stances taken by the very elite
To really give something back, instead of deplete
The earnings and the savings of the ones they call cheap
By waging war until the poor meet their defeat
That deserves a repeat
A toast to the end of poverty
To all those who can’t get a check without an arrest
In forgotten shacks being played like the lottery
And the victims of mockery
Who are broken more than pottery
To the saps that must move in and out of careers
With more soul than James Brown in South Korea
Though they’re used to hearing fairy tales
While being dealt phony
Hands full of quicksand dropped into their bony
Palms that disappear much quicker than alimony
They keep trying to make more cheese than macaroni
-These problems, I didn’t make them and I can’t undo ‘em
Slim riches have got me one step from waking in ditches
My pockets are always empty because money is running through ‘em
Wishes are too expensive to buy with these slim riches
Squeezing every penny like the wheeze of an accordion
When they get the pink slip it’s nowhere near a Freudian
Passing down clothes, lighting candles, four to a bed
Bread for three courses, groceries cutting back
Bus trips to double shifts, bill collector seeing red
Only aid is Band-aid, malnourished & cutting fat
All these measures taken but they’re used up like tissues
Tossed away with boots, newspapers, and other old issues
Or led by a gold carrot carried by a parrot parodying a man
Told they gotta play ball if they want the fame
And spend money they don’t have to eat that first 100 grand
But they don’t have a car to drive to get to the game
So they stay up late nights learning all of the rules
To better provide and put their kids through better schools
In hopes that the future will be an easier ride
So their children can live and not just merely survive
poem by P.R. Prosper
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