Jesus Wept...

There's a crisis in Health Carewait lists are too long
Guess King Ralph, shouldn't have blown up those hospitals
There's a crisis in hospital-costs are out of control
Prince Jim (Dinning)-Shoulda adjusted for inflation
There's a crisis in health careDoctors and Nurses are poorguess King Ralph
Shouldn't have regionalized
There's a crisis in social servicestoo much financial neglect
too many children seized
Guess King Ralph shouldn't have cut welfare
stopped homosexuals from being foster parents
There's a crisis in Iraq
King Paul says send in the troops
Prince Stephen says we can't
A year ago they both sung different tunes
As our troops bounce around
fixing the world
never to see loved ones again
on their leaders mad Crusade
We have the best Shelter System in North America
Ten Miracles a day as people get off the street
healed
educated
as 2,000 more come in to stay
Only difference between now
and 100 years ago
is our mats are thicker
as women
and men
still turn tricks to put bread on the table
and King Ralph
tosses pennies
at the penniless
We have a housing crisis
King Paul
King Ralph
Prince Kevin
and Prince Stephen
remain silent
it takes away prime real estate
as fiefdom Dave talks about a shelterless downtown
to keep the poor
poor
the addicted addicted
Duke Ray gets another raise
and a pint raised
to King Ralph
who gives a stipend for the c-train
and tosses a starving dog
a small bone
$7 minumum wage
With no rent ceilings
basic food (blue box or other) high priced
no public insurance
no guarantee of human rights
Don't sweat
free market fixes everything
the demand will drop the price
as evictions go up
and $12 an hour with a roommate,
maybe one can live
in the wealthy Kingdom of Calgary
Fiefdom Dave votes himself another raise
as Fire Chief sayeth that that 300-400 more firemen needed
to keep Calgarians alive as our castles burn
Fiefdom Dave cheers 45 more as another house goes up and did that baby make it out
For the love of money King Ralph waves labour laws
for Sour Gas Wells
as 300,000 Calgarians could die
for another penny in the bank
The debt is goneor is it shifted to a slush account
to evaporate in 14 years instead of paid off
a true matriach passes
to the Big Garden in the Sky
and school children weep
as they say good byeto their friend
A football hero
rises again
and risks his jobas he decries "Butt out" against
King Ralph and his band
Another million in the bank
another manfalls asleep
outside in Calgary
never to see morning again
as another raise is voted
by Fiefdom Dave
Duke Art decries the horrors of Same-Sex Marriage
as he gleefully votes against Kyotoa
child suffocates
from progress in the air
A cry for living wage
told "Thank you for your concern"
Baron Moe
does not care,
he got off scott freefrom illegal dealings
and identity falsification
as another MLA
is given a nice severance package
and retirement
for choosing not to run again
King Ralph lifts a pint
and says he'll fight gays
to the end
no matter the cost
but won't talk health care...
The wealthy, the rich
they are secure
they control all
as userfees rise taxes fall
and no wayfor the poor to recoup
as another middle class family
becomes working class
or working poor...
-Hoody in AB (Yes it is political poetry-Circa February 2005 )