The 99% : A Poem

in economics •  7 years ago 

Grandma we were at school
And our teacher who’s not so cool
Kept repeating ‘ninety-nine percent’
Using terms that were indecent


Are you serious?
Tell me child
What did he say to make you so furious?


He said that the ninety-nine percent continue to multiply
Without thought to the world’s resource supply
And that the fertility of the simple
Continues to threaten the prosperity of the nimble


Then he mentioned Occupy Wall Street
Dismissing them as an ignorant human fleet
Whose incoherent demand for justice
Has pushed the society to the precipice


Is that all he said dear?
Yes grandma that’s all
Well he’s right!

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