with indebtedness to Paul Krugman
All over America
roads are being broken up
Teachers let go
Street lights turned off
Federal spending sliced,
State and local governments
curtailing services
only the very rich,
who get tax breaks
can do without.
America
Wake Up!
You are on
an unlit
unpaved road
to nowhere.
A member of the East End (Long Island, NY) Poetry Workshop for over 15 years, Jean Kemper has had poetry published in a variety of journals including West Wind Review, MID American Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, Pudding, and Confrontation.
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