February 26, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week, in honor of President’s Day, is politics.
Today’s poem is about the role of the middle class in
injustice and oppression.
I welcome comments on my poems at
http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
The murderous middle class has no
Hard evidence of harm.
Each paddles round the cubicle,
Maintained by what goes on.
Unburdened by communion with
Romantic harmonies
Discerned by a too-willing heart,
Each dreams of grace and ease.
Reason serves the scavengers, while
Only nightmares tell,
Unspeakable, the evils wrought
So they might thrive in hell.
Middle classes mind the store,
Indentured to the wind,
Demanding nothing but their due,
Decent, honest, kind.
Little do they contemplate,
Entrapped in loss and gain,
Canticles of misery
Lamenting lifelong pain.
As they consume, they wonder why
So many others have to die,
Strangled in their name.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/themur.html.
For more poems about politics, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/politicalpoems.html
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This week’s theme: Politics
February 20: Praised Be Those Who Would Distribute Power
February 21: What Promises They Make and Cannot Keep
February 22: George
February 23: What Might Make a Person Want to Lead
February 24: When the World Is Laid Waste
February 25: Position Was Always One of Your Favorite Words
February 26: The Murderous Middle Class
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