Minimum Wages

Millions are working
For starvation wages
In supermarkets, farms,
Retail stores and cashiers' cages,
They live in slums or shelters,
Owe money for food and rent
Or credit charges for money spent,
Yet, congressmen, living very well,
Will not increase minimum pay
And let the poor just rot in hell.

If they refuse to open the gate
To decent living wages
For those poor who stand and wait,
Let voters make a new selection
In the next congressional election.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2006 Alfred Charasz