Have You Hugged Your Havenot Today?
\nThe haves drive BMWs – Haves wear Reebox
\nHave nots drive push brooms
\nHave nots look like retreads
\nwith their torn up
\nmuddy disgusting Pro Keds
\nThe haves have central
\nheating and hot and cold
\nrunning water in every room
\nHave Nots have no heat.
\nAnd the only running water now
\nDribbles across the plywood
\nShanties that have been flattened
\nOut by the borgouisey bulldozers
\nHaves have someone
\nPark their car while
\nThey ascend the sidewalk to their state
\nWindowside meeting room
\nHavenots stretch gladbag leantos against
\nPark benches next to sidewalks.
\nHalf their tent is a window
\nHaves drive off to the inner city
\nTo look at blacker people and
\nGuatemalan refugees.
\nThey smile and offer their Beamer
\nsaying, “Let’s go see how the other half\u00c2\u00a0“lives.”
\nHave nots don’t have to go anywhere.
\nThey just poke their heads out the leanto
\nAnd watch the Honorable Harry Have,
\nWalking up the sidewalk to his whispering
\nWindowside committee room.
\nHarry Have happens to have
\nSo much compassion, he’s
\nHead of a commissioned meeting
\nDiscussing what to do
\nWith all these hopeless homeless
\nHave Nots.
\nHungry Henry Havenot
\nWas about to use the donation
\nWhoopie Goldberg gave him from
\nComic Relief.
\nEnforcement agents sort of
\nMisplaced the money when they
\nViolently locked up
\nHungry Henry Havenot
\nFor Loitering.
\nHarry Have comes from a long history of Haves.
\nAristocrats from
\nWaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy back.
\nHungry Henry Havenot’s mom had him when she was 12.
\nShe left him somewhere near the beach,
\nAnd couldn’t find him.
\nHer mom was a child abuser
\nAnd her mom was too.
\nAnd so was her mom.
\nWow.
\nSounds like a terrible problem those
\nRussians are having, huh?
\nHmmm…
\nI’m pretty sure I was talking about here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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