American Family

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    American Family

    Another family down the road went broke today
    Took their home and their American way
    Lost their farm and lost their land
    Lost everything that used to make life grand

    Thirty years on the job and nothing to show
    What all is gone they'll never know
    Wall Street crashed, caused by greed
    The rich took their life and their mortgage deed

    The quest for their young to go to school
    All the dreams of a swimming pool
    The descent life now a memory
    The way they feel they're the enemy

    So much for the American Dream
    So much more to make them scream
    Whats next? ...Whats coming our way?
    How many more families have got to pay?

    No jobs within a thousand miles
    This family rides off not a reason to smile
    Here you go wall street you can have it all
    We're American strong, we stand American tall

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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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