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htuttle

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Mon Jan-17-11 05:40 PM
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49. Death and Taxes (a poem)

Edited on Mon Jan-17-11 05:41 PM by htuttle

The poet is a FB friend of mine, and I posted this poem on DU back in 2004 after I heard Tom read it at an anti-war rally. For a lot of people listening, it was the first time they'd heard some of these names.

DEATH AND TAXES

The assassinations have not ended.
Here are your tax dollars at work.

Crazy Horse 1877
Sitting Bull 1890
Geronimo 1909
Annie Mae Aquash 1978

The assassinations have not ended.
Here are your tax dollars at work.

Emiliano Zapata 1919
Cesar Sandino 1932
Salvador Allende 1973
Oscar Romero 1980

The assassinations have not ended.
Here are your tax dollars at work.

Patrice Lumumba 1960
Malcolm X 1965
Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968
Ken Saro Wiwa 1995

The assassinations have not ended!
Here are your tax dollars at work!

Tom Neale
http://www.madpoetry.org/previous/059fpoem.html

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