A Penny?

A Penny?

A penny for your thoughts
A dollar for your dreams
Have you ever wondered
What that expression means

Is it a nickel for a sentence
And a quarter for a paragraph
And if you do a whole page
Is that worth a dollar and a half

And what is so valuable
To put up cash on the line
And offer such a reward
Of what is on our mind

This just goes to show
How curious we have become
To offer real money
For the ideas, of someone

And is this age old question
A totally noble plea
Or are we just trying to find out
Their opinion of you and me

What's Up?

What’s Up?

We have pay raises on the top
We have pay cuts on the bottom
I know we’re not in Denmark
But something, still smells sort of rotten

The lower paid city workers
Quite often receive our praise
But only the top dogs
Will be getting, a healthy raise

And when they mention a furlough
I thought it meant some deserving R&R
But in today’s government language
It means your check, won’t go as far

I’d like to see more equity
For the city’s working class
Start cutting from the top
Then you’ll save some, real cash

I know my poem
May seem kind-of knee-jerk
But let’s be totally fair
For those who do the work

Hope

Hope?

Rows and rows
Of white marble stones
Underneath them lie
Our dead soldier’s bones

Sent to a war
We now know, was wrong
But that won’t change the fact
That they are, forever gone

But now I have hope
Running through my head
I hope Obama remembers
All that he has said

All those campaign promises
That put hope in our hearts
Well, I’m still Waiting
To see it, when it starts

We are forever hoping
That he’ll forge ahead
And change some of the wrong
That he has in-her-it-ed

Senior's Blogging?

As we blog, with the keyboard's touch
Some are getting it, some not so much

H1N1

We are all concerned
With the start of the “Swine Flu”
I hope I don’t get it
And I’m sure you do too

The church is telling us
To abstain from hand-shaking
I’m sure that will be more popular
Than abstaining from love-making

We now have a vaccine
Approved by C.D.C.
Sounds like a good prevention
For you and for me

Just a spray up your nose
Or a little shot in the arm
A little dead virus
Will do you no harm

Now some are still worried
That’s the message they’re sending
But I would rather believe
What the Doctors are recommending

Déjà-Vu


Remember that special election
When grey Davis was recalled
And Arnold Schwarzenegger
As governor was installed

Everyone was angry
About the higher fees
An unbalanced budget
Were the critic’s pleas

So here we are
Six years later
After we elected
The “Terminator”

So how much has changed
With the budget plan
By us all electing
A Republicaaan

Arnold’s ideas
Are to raise those fees
And bring our public schools
Right down to their knees

I hear no words of anger
Or threats of a recall
They just blame the Democrats
Under that big round ball

So another special election
Is their political answer
I knew he was an actor
But not a song and dancer

We elect these people
To make those difficult choices
But they won’t make decisions
They just want hear, their own pathetic voices

If I seem so cynical
With each question that I ask
I think that it’s time
To take these guys to task

Cash 4 Clunkers

The “Cash For Clunkers”
Was one of those great deals
You trade in your old junkers
And you get, a new set of wheels

The government’s “Stimulus Plan”
Was to put our economy, back in stride
We support the auto makers
And we get a new “Ride”

It seemed a good idea
To sell more cars
And help get rolling
This economy of ours

The plan was real solid
To help those auto installers
But I’m afraid, in the end
Japan & Germany got the most
of our dollars