Why are we not Criminalizing Poverty?
Is it not cruelty to govern unfairly?
To help people out demographically
The whole world over; is that wrong, scarcely.
Why then are we not Criminalizing Poverty?
Why are these tax avoidance vultures still circling?
Why are they not perching in their condominiums?
Are they so fat they don’t care for that living?
Why do our Political leaders go closed secret meets?
Have they been groomed since before preschool?
Where is our humanity, where is our social morality
Have we not reached deep enough into that depravity?
Why are we not Criminalizing Poverty?
In this the twenty-first century
Well from bonds we allow money to be printed out of thin air
So the governments we elect can promise likewise thin air.
Why are we not Criminalizing Poverty?
Why do all the newspapers focus on crass celebrity
What is truly our commonality in low minimal paid work?
Is we all might fall into poverty and be little more than dirt.
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