Life is a Contribution

In 2011
at the age of 92
after participating

in the New York
Occupy protest
Pete Seeger said

"Be wary
of great leaders.
Hope that there
are many many
small leaders."

This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.

Everybody's Doin' the Time

Hey childless women
walkin' the streets
you're suckin' hard
on Obama's big teat

Dems say you're a charity case
and you ain't discreet

Keep eggs un-fertilized
on the government's dime

you're complicit
in their slutty crimes.

Take us down
to Mike Huckabee's city

where Uncle Sugar
hands out Yasmin
to the babes
who are pretty

oh won't you please
take us home?

This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.

Don't Let It Be

When you found yourself
in big big trouble
you used God's authority
to make your priests the victims
Holy See

Rather than reveal their darkness
to some state authority
you were their protection racket
Holy See

Holy See
Holy See
Holy See
Holy See
those children need your answer
Holy See.

This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.

Bridge Lines

(Apologies to Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams)

Everybody held up
Everybody held up
Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey

If you didn't know
what Mr. Wildstein say

If you didn't know
your peeps
planned it this way
Maybe you're out of your mind

Everybody held up

We know you're desperate
but you're a "good gov"

Office blocked traffic
Commuters getting spastic
You say "Why you blastin'?"

We hate these bridge lines
We know you want it
We know you want it
We know you want it
But you're a "good gov"

This attention-grabbin'
and bein' so nasty

Lib' children miss classes

Everybody held up

You want to be prez?
What rhymes with "be prez"?

This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.

Bro Code

It's the New Year
Pope Francis is still yakking
about the world's ills

and that we have
a "responsibility" to work towards
a worldwide
"community of brothers"

(and knowing him
probably sisters too)

who accept
each other's "diversity"
and "take care
of one another".

So this poet will
get off her
irresponsible
liberal duff
reach across the aisle

and wish Barbara Bush
a speedy recovery
who also said

"You get nothing done
if you don't listen to each other."

This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.