Social Contract

The romanticized Russian Communist State

Soon found after its launch to its disastrous fate

Wolves and Dragons abounded to keep their usual date

At every crack and seam

Through which sunlight might beam

A political gain or authoritative aim

While other boastful systems in other lands

Flexed to extend limbs, an open hand

By saying to every man

Surrender to government your cash cows

And the right that it brings

To manage your own best interest by the usual civil means

In return we offer community, to let government intervene

With a safety-net program and compassion

With which men should be seen

But now, through taxes, having wrestled entirely away

Each man’s cash cow; ownership forgotten by them day by day

The conservative change of government became subtle in its sway

And announced a government safety-net not necessary as a means

To aid those disenfranchised by a lack of jobs, hope,

Or the homelessness that it brings

As if it were still a world, every man left an island to himself

When plainly it is not

Community controls each estate

Every parcel, every lot, peeps in every pot

Thus owing a liberal chance to survive

To every man, should they arrive

Without a cash cow or job at homelessness door

(But a fact now sought to be denied)

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For the conservative corporate intent has contrived

Though we pay taxes for the people’s problems at hand

They may be incorrectly prioritized then stolen away by a different plan

Regardless of the co-dependency or danger it places on a displaced man

While on the backstreets, year after year, the people languish and some die

Without cash cows, homes, or jobs

Under the sun and moon’s watchful eye