Humpty Dumpty the President had a Great Fall

Posted by Matthew Crouch at 11:11

Humpty Dumpty the president had a great fall and all of his daddy's horses and all of his daddy's men couldn't put the nation back together again

While less fortunate brothers and sisters were struggling to hang on

If only for another day holding on to babies and grandparents

Holding on for dear life to their beloveds

Unable to bury their dead

Meanwhile the smartest woman from this nation’s administration was out buying shoes with the likes of Imelda Marcos.

Those people of the great old South smuggling food so their families can survive and getting shot by their “government” for looting

In a great old dame of a now submerged city

Reduced to Anarchy by what the insurance corporations will call an act of God

Even though it was years of political downsizing more than a hurricane named Katrina

This latest lost Atlantis (because all the while)

The military's industrial corporate death machines scour the great land of Iraq

Justifying their wrongdoing in the name of Freedom and Democracy and because of something called Terror

While good mothers want to know why their children are dead

Up and down the rivers of the Tigris and the Euphrates the Americans go in search of the last drops of oil which only blood can buy

And like Nine-Eleven this administration says they never saw this coming

Never saw Katrina march towards land

Like they never saw the planes fly off course

As if they never saw the inevitable bankruptcy of an unnecessary war

Because the poor are expendable while the rich are not

And why are their no modern day Biloxi and New Orleans styled Berlin Air Lifts to help the poor trapped in a nations sinking Atlantis

Why only cheap buses for the poor when there more than enough planes for the rich?

Planes that could bring in provisions and take out those who didn’t have cars

Cars that would cost less than Condi’s new shoes

How many new big SUV’s left New Orleans with enough unused seats and space in the back?

That a whole black family could have been fit albeit uncomfortably into safety

While citizens wait in the water for their vacationing leaders to come back to work

And yet the Mayor of New Orleans was the only leader in America telling it like it is

It is always the poor and the oppressed who suffer the consequences for the morals of the privileged

To see this we have only to look into the TV faces of men and women and children

Faces from Biloxi and New Orleans and elsewhere caught in the distresses of the greed of the rich

Humpty Dumpty the president had a great fall

And all of his daddy's horses and all of his daddy's men

Couldn’t put the nation back together again

Humpty Dumpty the president had a great fall

Not that Humpty Dumpty the president cared

For he lives beneath a world insulated with layers of security and entitlement blankets

Humpty Dumpty the president had a great fall

And all of his daddy’s horses and all of his daddy’s men

Wouldn’t put the nation back together again…

Humpty Dumpty the president had a great fall in the autumn early autumn of ’05