today's headlines

the income gap narrows (incredibly)

and the new gilded robber barons

cry out #thanksobama

and prop up their orange faced puppet

with the neo-southern strategy trump card;

while 90's nostalgia, or amnesia,

supports their plutocrat with a vagina;

while the press,

undeserving of their protected freedoms,

fail to serve the public and

speak truth to power,

by calling "bullshit."

meanwhile,

the cops are an occupying force,

"a fucking war machine protecting the wealth of the employing class."

these are not isolated incidents:

the killing of an unarmed bad dude whose car broke down

and a father waiting to pick his kid up after school

while his wife records to protect herself

since their bodycams will only show what

they want us to see...

which is not the truth:

it's the #charlotteuprising.

#charlotteriots is a lie.

parents and children and clergy and atheists, alike,

of all color,

are locking arms and

declaring,

"our streets! no justice, no peace!"

kneeling in nonviolent patriotic protest,

in the face of police in riot gear,

acting as the often ignored conscience of a nation that declares

"liberty and justice for all;"

while in reality,

there's a legal system for the poor

and another for the banker:

one gets incarcerated;

the other gets a $125 million severance package...

because there's always, only ever been the class war;

and when patience wears thin

and tensions boil-over

and the windows of a BoA branch get smashed,

it must be admitted "that a riot is the language of the unheard."

some dark times for democracy in the old u.s. of a;

but there's some hope in knowing that the progressive era followed the gilded.