RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: AMERICAN POLITICS
The Secret State
You put him in power
To get rid of the fat
The useless abusers
Not the harmless bureaucrats
They said they would rid you
Of the secret, deep state
The unelected elites
That control the nation’s fate
Now look who’s in charge
Every minute and hour
They’ve taken up residence
In the executive tower
They make the decisions
They pull all the strings
They sound the alarms
Just to see if they ring
We had no deep state
But now that we do
They’ll tear down democracy
The joke is on you
Social Security?
Medicare and Medicaid?
Just wait til you see
The plans that they’ve laid
Environmental protection?
Who cares about that?
Get rid of it all
They’ll just call it fat
Educating the poor?
The ones who can’t pay
Throw it out with the trash
And call it a day
Freedom of speech?
The right to exist?
They’ll answer to that
With a hammer and fist
Is this what you wanted?
Nobody cares
In the politics of war
Everything’s fair
