OPEN COURT

To really better education,
Requires of teachers that they think
About their wrongful toleration
Of lessons that are rinky dink.
Instead of teaching kids what’s critical
The school boards’ plans are parasitical
On companies like Open Court.
To these a teacher should retort:
“I want to make my students clamor
For understanding when they go
To battle with the Status Quo.
And if their status quo’s the slammer,
When they get out they’ll understand
The school board helped to get them canned.”

FOR IRAQUI JOURNALIST MUNTADER al-ZAIDI

A shoe was thrown by one reporter
To strike a blow at W.
Too bad he didn’t lob a mortar
And turn the THE MAN into fondue.
The mainstream press is so housebroken
They emphasized George Bush’s jokin'.
But throwing shoes are an attempt
Iraquis use to show contempt.
For what can show a man’s more sordid
Than soles of shoes that pick up dirt
And blood from people that he's hurt.
Too bad that anger’s not exported
Back home where it won’t be a joke
When buckaroos go up in smoke.

THE DUNGHEAP OF HISTORY

The purpose of my ranting writing
Is to improve your martial arts
In hopes that one day my broadsiding
Will help us storm the pols’ ramparts;
And tear from office politicians
Submitting them to electricians
Who’ll happily supply the shock
Will end their lying poppycock;
As well, their partners, corporations
Whose exploitation bleeds us dry.
Then, tired of eating humble pie,
We’ll send them on to destinations
Where one day they may prove of use
Or garbage heaped like foul refuse.

FOR TRUTHDIG.COM

Who educate our mediocrities
At schools like Harvard, Stanford, Yale
Pretend they are a modern Socrates
But who among them dare assail
The state by speaking truth to powers?
Instead they hide in ivory towers
While outside we all live in hells
Promoted by their clienteles.
These Ivy Leaguers- all- are dunces
Who serve the corporations as
The makers of our Alcatraz.
It’s shameful they got over once. Is
It possible (I mean what if),
We shoved these fuckers off a cliff?

THE STATE OF THE UNIONS

A union needs strategic planning
For nowadays to just survive
It cannot get along by banning
Nonunion workers from the hive.
So businessmen hypothesizing
Where to begin economizing
Might then be met at every turn
By workers whom they cannot spurn.
When unions turn to politicians
(Who owe the bosses oh so much
Because they have the Midas touch),
They’ll never fulfill their ambitions-
For when you back politicos
You’re always backing status quos.

DISAPPOINTMENT? ( A REPLY TO ALTERNET BLOGGER ROBERT CREAMER)

Who thought Obama’s advertising
Of ending Bush and Cheney’s reign
Was spot on are now realizing
They might have voted John McCain.
For when Obama was elected
The cabinet that he confected
Was mostly made of neocons
And Democratic woebegones.
Who dreamed Obama walked on water-
The liberals in blushing pink-
Began to feel their dream boat sink;
That he might even prove a rotter
By choosing those to rule the roost
Whom Washington has mass produced.

Re: MELTDOWN (FOR AESA MEMBERS)

Perhaps if I just keep on blogging
The truth of what I have to say
Will interfere with all the clogging
In peoples’ heads brought on by way
Of total lack of education
On how we might end exploitation-
By making workers their own boards
Appropriating bosses’ hoards.
Of course this means the dissolution
Of capital. But that’s not news,
For capital was born to lose
In fiery hells of REVOLUTION.
Ergo we’ll never mind the store
Unless prepared for civil war.