Dedicated to all those real, hard working folk the Republicans think of as “a drag on the economy”
But who we know, in reality, are the backbone of this country.
Do the verses seem like doggerel? Perhaps.
Like the language of working folk? Certainly!
No pretense, no airs, no fancy footwork here.
Simple, plain, honest, work.
I will start things off with some quatrains about people I have met in my travels around the globe and I invite you all to add to them with your own 4 line verses in the comments until we have a true cross section off occupations and situations from all over the nation (or the world).
Our aim is to express, in poetry, the depth and breadth of the American working spirit; to throw it back squarely in the pasty, overfed faces of the Boehners, Cantors and Walkers.
Won’t you join us?
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