Milwaukee Community Journal.

It’s Alright Ma, Paul Ryan is Smilin’ #2

Matthew B.
Resistance Poetry
2 min readFeb 6, 2018

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After the greatest tax bill in history

one guaranteed to bring happiness

to the American people who really

should bow low awhile & heap

praise & thanks upon those

ever-in-their-corner

Smiling Republicans,

Paul Ryan in all his natural to him,

but seeming incomprehensible

to the rest of us,

pride & desire

to shout out to all

who could hear

the wonderful fact that

a woman in Lancaster, Pa

was ‘pleasantly surprised’

to find an extra $1.50

in her new paycheck,

Yes … $1.50 a week.

Apparently Paul Ryan

thought this to be news

worth sharing

on account of its sheer

gosh darned awesomess,

& could I point out here as you

smirk so gently Mr Paul Ryan

that Asset Managers, Big Banks,

& one Donald J. Trump

stand to gain millions

from this

windfall.

Oh …

& incidentally …

5 days after

the tax bill passed

the Koch Brothers

donated a cool $500,000.

to Paul Ryan’s Fundraising Committee,

which actually is

pocket change really,

when you consider

its estimated they’ll

be looking forward

to about

oh …

1 billion dollars extra

from this …

the greatest tax bill

in U.S.History.

Oh …

the crumbs

from your table …

we gather them as they fall,

while lifting our heads

… in praise.

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Matthew B.
Resistance Poetry

More Trump stuff going back to that day in November can be found @ martgenova.blogspot.com, Poems for Trump.