New Hillbilly Elegy

Let me write a new hillbilly elegy

Found on corruption and corporate greed

So J D is an Appalachian but he lives on elite air

His running mate makes P T Barnum look like he’s playing a kids game

Billions scream I don’t have enough money

What will America look like after the Election

I don’t know but I have clues

If your White Anglo Saxon welcome to the big tent

If you don’t look like one of us you should know
There is pain a coming

In Board Rooms glasses spill champagne
A roar goes up they toast the new Authoritarian

So in a small slice of Appalachia
A roar goes up as their lives will descend

Into the blackness that Greed is Good

They will suffer but the shareholders will agree

Separating the poor from their money

Is Good Business and no one disagrees

So how will J D make my Appalachian life better

He has no answers he says did you read my semi novel

So now my town has lost its last hospital

I have to drive 58 miles to save my kin

So J D with a Yale education with a wife who puts things before the UnSupreme Court

Says he’ll make our life better

Lift us out of the Poverty of living in Appalachia

What do you see in the distance is Billionares

Having a picnic on the backs of working people

They say they’re for the us

But they live in a different dimension

Welcome to the 2024 Hillbilly Elegy Election