Warning!

Let it not go too far
with corrupt politicians,
influence lobbies, crooked banks
and Wall Street swindlers
ripping the public off with graft,
hedge funds, short sales,
phony stocks , Ponzi schemes
or other elaborate manipulations.

When people lose their jobs,
their homes, sleep on the street
or in cars, have no health care,
lack of food and starve,
they're apt to rise with wrath
born out of agony and rip
apart this sorry scheme of things.

I've seen it before in Nazi Germany
and the Soviet Union
when criminals came to power
inflicting horrors beyond description.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2009 Alfred Charasz