A rap poem by U. S. Representative Major R. Owens

[macalimuu]

Let the Rich Go First

 

A rap poem by U. S. Representative Major R. Owens

 

Working Families Keep your soldiers at home,

 

For overtime in Iraq

 

No cash

 

No comp time

 

Not even gratitude,

 

Republicans intrude

 

To exempt all heroes,

 

No combat rotation

 

Life on indefinite probation

 

Scrooges running the Nation.

 

To the front lines

 

Let the rich go first--

 

For blood they got a thirst,

 

Let the superstars drink it

 

In the glorious trenches;

 

Leave the disadvantaged on the benches.

 

Working Families

 

Let the rich go first:

 

The battlegrounds they always choose

 

Their estates have the most to lose;

 

Send highest IQs to

 

Take positions at the front,

 

Let them perform their best

 

High-tech warfare stunt;

 

Working Families

 

Keep your malnourished sons home--

 

Harvard Yale kids should roam

 

The world with guns and tanks,

 

Reserve gold medals

 

For the loyal Ivy League ranks.

 

O say can you see

 

Millionaire graduates

 

Dying for you and me?

 

Welfare Moms

 

Have a message for the masters:

 

Tell Uncle Sam

 

His TANF pennies he can keep

 

For food stamps we refuse to leap

 

Through your hoops like beasts;

 

Promise to leave our soldiers alone

 

And we'll find our own feasts.

 

To Uncle Sam we offer a bargain--

 

Don't throw us dirty crumbs

 

Don't treat us like bums

 

And then demand

 

The full measure of devotion;

 

Our minds are now in motion

 

Class warfare

 

Is not such a bad notion;

 

Your swindle will not last

 

Recruiters we won't let pass,

 

Finally, we opened our eyes--

 

Each family is a private enterprise.

 

Each child a precious prize;

 

We got American property rights,

 

Before our children die in war

 

This time we'll choose the fights.

 

Let the rich go first:

 

They worry about

 

The overtime we abuse;

 

The battlefields they always choose

 

Their estates have the most to lose.

 

Let the rich go first!

[Baashi]

^I liked it. He tells like it is.

 

Let the rich go first:

 

The battlegrounds they always choose

 

Their estates have the most to lose;

 

Send highest IQs to

 

Take positions at the front,

 

Let them perform their best

 

High-tech warfare stunt;