selected poems of Arlen Riley Wilson

Save Your Breath


	Don't budget deficit me you old men with eyeglasses and no
		lips who say we can't afford to house the houseless or
		to heal the sick.
	Don't fiscal responsibility me you devourers of the fat of the
		land may it clog your devious up-for-election arteries.
	Don't balance of trade me you horny-handed peddlars of
		shoddy shares in finger-crossed bonanzas based on
		non-existent enterprise.
	Don't national security me you who make deals behind our backs
		under cover of law-proof dark.
	Don't family-values me you who force apart man woman and
		child in the interest of an ever-grosser national product.
	Don't state of the union me you unctuous apologists for
		quotidian horror may you choke on your aw-shucks-
		just-plain-old-me charisma.
	Don't pay your speech-writers one more cent on my account
		or your column writers or The News Tonighters.
	Epoxy in my ears before I hear another word.
	


	



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