No. 240: Middle Class Dismissed

Such as it is, the middle class clings

to splintering rungs on a teetering ladder,

trying to rise by pulling. . .strings

with the people who actually matter.

The rungs below are covered in “slime”:

exotics of various races,

immigrants, poor, “committers of crime”,

conniving full time to replace us.

Meantime, at the top of the heap,

the one-percent puppetry masters

keep a few shepherds to keep the sheep

from banding together. Think of the disaster

if non-upper classes

in concert making things “fair”,

were to imagine that wee teaming masses,

could better allocate everyone's share,

instead of letting our “betters” decide

who has to walk, who gets a free ride.

Relax, relax, hold your outraged remarks.

I am not advocating anything Marxist.

I jest, I confess, I know we are blessed

to live in a land where you wealthy know best.

While we are stressed, we are not oppressed.

If  allowed to remain almost middle class, 
we will continue kissing your ass. 

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[updated 1/3/2018, 2:19 pm]