Least Read Poems About Rebellion

Guy
       Pheonix
                      Fawkes
Set
      alight
                every
                          year
Comes
            back
                     with
                             a
                                 bang!

by Jemia

Gov't officials see a bright future ahead
The poor will no longer exist
Drive these people out of their homes
Increase their rent, please try & resist

Isolate them like you once did in Harlem
Ghettos without prison walls
If they revolt, cops smash their heads
Or spray mace into their eyeballs

Breakdown the walls that kept us segregated
No time like the present time
Take out the ruling class
No one in life should get a free pass

You can drive a car if you do it right
but you can't go far if it puts you out of sight
you can't look at girls
you can't drink anything
you got to get your kicks in the shadow of fear

You stay out late when they think your young
when they find out, there gonna want you hung
so you try to understand that you might get near
cause your lost alone in the shadow of fear

So you found a chick that you think is fine
but you fell too fast so you lost your mind
society looks, but they turn their ears
you got to get...

Councilors, Court systems
Criminal justice, Tort cases
Decision-makers, game changers, complacency,
Hatred for the other side
What's the common denominator?
Y'all remember when Enron, WorldCom, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, A.I.G., the Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs tanked?
GM and the auto industry asked for a bail out, because they were too big to fail
And the people who worked in the factories were left damn near penniless
Crying in interviews, so much so, Michael Moore made a name for himself in a documentary
Never forget “Occupy Wall Street” ...

Some still think that to make new things better
we have to burn down the infamous past
as if eliminating a letter
would make a saint from every scholiast
or that torching down entire abodes
will magically trans-mutate neighborhoods
into someplace where no ethic corrodes
in swaps between all services and goods...

to say nothing of the environment
stung by the fallout from the toxic flames
which planned disassembly would circumvent
with less pollution from the timber frames...
since who knows what else was in that old...