If a cop, a traffic stop
Stumbles on money’s favor
Bribery is the label
Reflected in the cops behavior.

Laws define, such as this
For reasons we all know
Cut, dried and pasteurized
Reflecting actions that will show

Yet, bribery needs redefining
Including favors Congress sought
By those who’d use the system
To advantage money’s lot. ..

But money owns the intellect
to maneuver round the rocks
Creating value, as perception
Making short work of legal blocks.

Labor fought for decades
Many losing life and limb
For concessions now abandoned
Labors ‘twilight’ is closing in

Congress is, through Capitol (*)
Thieves protected by the law
Sent our jobs off packing
Toward an economic fall

A man intent on murder
Can by law be tried
What of murdering a culture
A crime here be denied?

The fox is in the hen-house
Dressed in chicken drag
An appetite that’s satisfied
And an attitude to brag

1/8/10

(*) Metaphor reflecting the moneyed class