Sunday, June 06, 2021

Mexico City Blues (Killing Candidates)

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: WORLD DEMOCRACY


Killing Candidates in Mexico

 

In Texas they rig the ballot box

In Georgia they bring back Jim Crow

In Arizona they count until they win

They kill candidates in Mexico

 

No matter how bad it may seem

All we do and do not know

As bad as it is in Michigan

Things are worse in Mexico

 

Did they think no one would notice

When so many turned up dead

For the crime of failing to follow

Where corrupt leaders have led?

(for the nerve of failing to swallow

what the cartels have fed?)

 

You cannot blame el Presidente

At least he tries to help the poor

But democracy cannot survive when

The system is rotten to the core

 

I know we think it’s only Mexico

Things like this just happen there

But this is exactly what can occur

When the people no longer care

 

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