A Dying Old Man is Tossed Away
By Mike Garofalo
A skinny old man of brittle bones
failing in a screwed dementia brain,
family all dead, all alone,
living in a small ratty group home,
a penniless unknown on Medicaid,
can't think straight, can't vote.
Wears a red MAGA hat
put on his unwise hairless head
by a cruel Nurse Ratched Republican
as a joke.
Millionaire heartless political renegades
with visions of fancy expensive escapades
decide that Medicaid is welfare graft so
buy votes for a pompous fat stupid Axe
Cutting the helpless brainless man
Off of Uncle Sam's Medicaid rolls.
Where will he go?
Shame, shame on American ways.
God will no longer bless America;
He is disgusted and dismayed.
"Politics can be the graveyard of a poet;
and only poetry can be his resurrection."
- Langston Hughes
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