Friday, November 13, 2015

Gourmet Legislators - Poem I read at the UVU 2015 Social Change Conference

Gourmet Legislators

Lunches -- gourmet salads and gourmet burritos
and socializing. They're wives are all there as well.

These legislators, there to please their voters,
to please all these companies; NGOs; ORGs; EDUs.

Who are all vying for money, for resources the State took
from their pockets in the first place. Beggars for causes and drugs.

Why on earth do we look down on beggars when
we were born beggars, die beggars, spend that in-between sliver of life begging?

Constituents, politicians, the Senators' wives (why are they here again?)
All smiles and chatting and chitting; chitting the bull, shooting the breeze.

The Senators laughingly shoot down a bill about the State
dog -- fourth graders wanted it to be the golden retriever: the loyal family dog.

But they also reject the bill about medical cannabis, the stuff that
saves the family, cures an ill mother. Legislators ought to be served


Gourmet shame with their gourmet salads and burritos.