for lack of values

Bill Clinton executed a slick coup
betraying Labor to play Bankers' whore
No worker's had a chance since '92
Financiers own the field in this Class War.
What Management has captured won't swing back
by meekly voting-in the party slate.
Pretending rights are not under attack,
we give the few ten times their proper weight.
Milt Friedman's underlying fallacy
mistook stock-price for what an asset's worth.
Four decades on, this arrant lunacy
seems bent selling off all on life on Earth.
Two parties in the thrall if too-big Banks
ill-serve the People in our files, and ranks.

CHANGE!

the status quo has served the Clintons well
they've joined the Ruling Class' moneyed ranks
no matter it's a marriage made in Hell
they've hitched their wagon to the biggest banks
Piketty warned us of this downward slope
as capital's ingathered to the Few
as Bernie fades, so fades the People's hope
that we may share the nation's bounty, too
real wages don't reflect the market's gain
that bankers divy in the bonus pool
while Bill assures us that he feels our pain
his wife serves Wallstreet as its faithful tool
some cheered; a woman fin'lly got her turn
but this one truly never felt the Bern        

the long game

the Senate was supposed to lend her cred
but Hillary's campaign bombed in '08
and so she joined the Cabinet instead
to get some Press while she was forced to wait
her chairman's now the head of DNC
the SuperDelegates are all lined up
she's dotted every 'i' and crossed each 't'
her arm's outstretched to claim the trophy cup
who dreamt the People nursed another plan
and rather than embrace the status quo
they'd rally to a rumpled, balding man
who doesn't care which way the fashions blow
the coronation plans have hit a glitch
the peasants show no love for WallStreet's bitch

shadow of the man

Bill Clinton foreswore meat and lost some weight
but something more went missing in the deal
although as years roll by he's looking great
his passions gutter out on vegan meals
the slickest politician of his age
whose tool-kit only lacked in self-restraint
diminished now he's turned this newest page
less penitent and more aspiring saint
the mind's still sharp, but voters crave the charm
that resonated with both North and South
seducing both the board-room and the farm
with honeyed tongue in such a gifted mouth
deployed to rout the specter of defeat
in Iowa, that battle's waged on meat