Arab Spring/American Fall

Soon those cold winds
will chill the bone,
and send all the children
back to their home

and the great machine
will just go on
like it always has,
right or wrong.

by Dave Holloway 10/2011

The American Dream

It’s always too expensive

down poverty hall.

Skimping and saving

for nothing at all.

By the time we acquire

the great golden dream.

A ghetto it became

in a rich man’s scheme.

The sights we set

always fade away.

We take what they give

and never say

ENOUGH!

NO VOTE HERE!

Trapped like always

by marketed fear

making someone rich

we really can’t say.

So behind the carrot

we trot away.

by David Holloway

Published by DY Magazine  10/2010