POEM: Cruel After Math — Owed to Sen. Rob Portman’s Health Care Vote

What kind?
Of cruel after-math
Is Sen. Portman working up
The American people
Facing
Bye the tens of thousands
Buy the tens of billions
For tax cuts
For the richest Americans
For loaded corporations drunk on
What is owed
To the flush and the flushed
To the affluent and the effluent
How does this add up?
What is the take away?
Is this the American will?
The right to
Or merely the extreme right of
Into an afterlife
Leaving loved wons behind
And nothing else
A cruel after-math
It's your cull
A nation divided
Halves and halve nots
And what might
You be culpable of
Americans may ever no
Of a 's last will and testament
Sow telling
In the ends
And the means
Of
And its reverse

This is the poem that I read at today's protest outside of Sen. Rob.Portman's office (see video of poetry reading).  A large laminated version of the above poem was delivered to his office.  There were an estimated 45-45,000 .  In the photo below, I am pictured in the center next to “Flat Rob,” a cutout of Sen. Portman that we use to conduct our own town hall meetings on the street, since Sen. Portman does not see it fit to hold official town hall meetings with his constituents.

Sen. Rob Portman Health Care Protest

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