[October 9]: Apologists Are Like Anesthesiologists

I know what’s going on;
I’m watching the news, reading the papers
Scrolling through pictures
And adding up the figures
I hear what’s going on;
I’m listening to conversations
On the bus, in cafés and metro stations
And the state-owned radio
I know what they’ll say
That the situation is unacceptable,
Undeniably intolerable,
Deplorable, impossible,
Seemingly incurable,
Harmful to the vulnerable,
Irrepressible to innumerable,
And it is the fault of rebels and the fighters,
Activists and occupy movements,
Austerity criticizers,
And left wing whistle-blowing match-lighters:
These
People
Are protesting blights on society’s downward spiraling
Morally dying front.
And who can speak for the poor government?
After all, they are only people, too.
Blame thrown back and forth,
And solutions as feasible as migrating north for the winter
The cold, bitter winter
That will be the death of the voiceless
Homeless, garment-less, crime-less
Victims of the public consensus:
That times are hard,
And the global recession is bound to create
Further depression;
A deep division
Between life and living,
And those who shoulder the responsibility for them
Can hardly do anything
What with all the leeches in the system
Living off the taxpayer’s lost time with his children
The unemployed are just not working hard enough
Now they’ve got their feet up, pay check in their pockets
They have
The nerve
The absolute bloody nerve
To criticize
The government.
And who can speak for the poor government?
And that’s just it, isn’t it?
Wherever I go,
No matter what republic I’m in,
I see what’s going on
And I know what they’ll say
And I see who pays dearly for all
That time wasted on arguments and talk.
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October Poetry: in the style of April Poetry (U.S. National Poetry Month),U.K’s poetry month is October.
Personal Mission: 31 days, 31 poems.
Challenge Accepted.
Link to others: http://sarahkasm.tumblr.com/october-poetry-2012