No Heart? See Tin Man
by Lynne Shapiro
You are unraveling everything I hold dear.
Every bit of progress in clean air, water and health
is being undone. Every bit of progress
in civil rights, equality, undone.
Government for the people, all the people,
shouldn’t be dismantled. You with no vision,
no morality, you’ve surrounded yourself with a cast
of uglies, as if to say Lick my books – no compromise!
Nothing for you but what trickles down, as if
only the rich and white are good and deserving.
Shame! The sham wizard is a puppet
with no heart. No heart.
Every bit of progress in clean air, water and health
is being undone. Every bit of progress
in civil rights, equality, undone.
Government for the people, all the people,
shouldn’t be dismantled. You with no vision,
no morality, you’ve surrounded yourself with a cast
of uglies, as if to say Lick my books – no compromise!
Nothing for you but what trickles down, as if
only the rich and white are good and deserving.
Shame! The sham wizard is a puppet
with no heart. No heart.
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Lynne Shapiro is a poet and teacher who lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. She has two posters on her front door: one about “truth” (needed now more than ever), the other: a plea for the Donald to show us his taxes.
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