Car Runs You Over
So, if we were going to do a unit conversion, here,
How many water wells in Africa and seeds `
Could you buy
For the price
Of a 'nice'
Looking car
That "seduces" you
Out of your reasoning skills
Just as easily as a handsome pickup artist?
While you ignore`
The guy in the corner
The car that’ll get you from point A to B
Without consuming your wallet
Like a gold-digger.
. . .
Money DOES grow on trees. Family trees.
Of the superwealthy 1%. They just pluck the fruits of their parent's labor.
Then they ship that fruit overseas
so the middle class has to pay all the taxes~
Can't really blame 'em though,
'Cause that's just what they're taught ta do
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
It's not cruelty, or in their genes
It's nurture and environment.
This environmentalist thinks
That's at least one tree
She wouldn't mind seeing severely pruned and trimmed
So the rest of the garden could absorb some sunlight.
. . .
A scruffy kindly lady asks me for a five dollar bill.
It allows her to sleep somewhere out of the cold chill.
I make exactly five dollars an hour, minus sales commissions.
I hold a little ceramic turtle in my hand.
I mean to give it to my pastor, who left our church.
It is eight dollars.
Who decided that a ceramic turtle
Was worth more than a lady’s shelter?
Were they same ones that
made a piece of fruit
cost more than a burger?
No.
Were they the same ones that
would charge exorbitant amounts for a new car
while people in the world starve?
Maybe.
Were they the same ones that
support industries
while ministries
struggle to feed and empower?
Including myself?
Yes.