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Today I Shall Give You Congress

this is what congress all about
lawmakers
lawbreakers
about 250 of them and by their own laws
they may increase their
number and their salaries and their junket trips abroad
with their families and personal staff

we feed them
we pamper them
and they give us laws
to make us poorer
and more miserable

they are all learned men
and we adore them

at the end we make them our honorable oppressors
and to honor them some more
we kiss their hands
and for what they say
we listen
and applaud them

i suggest we abolish them and put an end
to what must not be
but you say on some justifications
somewhere in our country
we need a grand edifice
an institution

at least, something nice to see
something to believe and dream

and always at our expense
so we always keep them

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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