The Age of Plutocrats
Adolescent plutocrats are now abroad across our land
entitled wealthy bully boys set free to roam
from moral creed and ethical rods by dithering justices
who doodle supreme court rulings cleverly reached
with purchased nods behind closed doors.
Armed with choirboy looks and devious wiles, they dupe
the gullible with Pinocchio smiles as they punch their way
with unwavering guile to the top of the American heap
and desecrate the ground where hero soldiers sleep.
…the spangled Stars of Liberty are no more.
Kings of the Mountain with unlimited powers
they coddle their children with undeserved pardons
and reward their friends with ill-gotten favors
stolen from the electorate, the poor, and the down trodden.
…the spangled Stars of Liberty are no more.
Deaf to ancestral voices warning strife, these wayward boys
build pleasure domes on shifting sands and caves of ice
and still not sated with their looted goods, they lust for more
and even steal the pennies of the poor with their loaded dice.
… and the spangled Stars of Liberty are no more.