Anti-Wage-Slavery, Pro-Freedom Quotation 234

Save Your Breath
Arlen Wilson

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Don't budget deficit me you old men with eyeglasses and no lips who say we can't afford to house the houseless or to heal the sick.

Don't fiscal responsibility me you devourers of the fat of the land may it clog your devious up-for-election arteries.

Don't balance of trade me you horny-handed peddlars of

shoddy shares in finger-crossed bonanzas based on

non-existent enterprise.

Don't national security me you who make deals behind our backs

under cover of law-proof dark.

Don't family-values me you who force apart man woman and

child in the interest of an ever-grosser national product.

Don't state of the union me you unctuous apologists for

quotidian horror may you choke on your aw-shucks-

just-plain-old-me charisma.

Don't pay your speech-writers one more cent on my account

or your column writers or The News Tonighters.

Epoxy in my ears before I hear another word.