12/25/2008

Xmas 2008: scamland


Photo: Somewhere in America

markdowns on markdowns
but nobody's buying
laid off her job
her children are crying
old people freezing
homeless are starving
tuna for turkey
nobody's carving
families on food stamps
while bankers run free
in the land of the scammers
and the smug bourgeoisie
where there's only one question
what's in it for me
so this is America
the U.S. of Fraud
hounded by hucksters
suckered by god
lost in the flim-flam
a people in need
in the home of the knave
and the landfill of greed