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“Happy Birthday Occupy. You’ve changed me. Now, let’s change our country.” – Hakim Bellamy
Citizen’s United – by hakim bellamy
This poem was originally published at Truthout.org
[snipped -- read the whole poem here]
There is a name
For people who will take
The very bread
Off of our dinner table
And put it in their pocket
They are toast
Like champagne flutes
Are the new silver spoons
Like what they will be
When the revolutions
And the riots
Catch up with them
Tomorrow morning
When humanity
Has the munchies
And eats presidential candidates
For breakfast
When their war chest
Can fill the holes
In our country’s
Debt, deficit & addiction
But.
They’d rather
Raise money
To argue about it
Than raise sleeves
To fix it
[snipped -- read the whole poem here]
© Hakim Bellamy September 17th, 2012
For Rasheed and for Occupy
Inaugural Poet Laureate of Albuquerque, New Mexico (2012-2014) http://hakimbe.com/
MORE SPOKEN WORD BY HAKIM BELLAMY
“Margins” ~ This piece was written for the Center for Popular Economics 2011 Summer Institute, “Media, Democracy and the Economy”. This reading was on August 20th, 2011 at “The Projects” in Albuquerque, NM for the Culture Jolt, a fundraiser for the Albuquerque Cultural Conference.
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