John Kaniecki- Three Poems

Union Pretend   Published by Industrial Worker

 

The CEO said to Union Pretend

How’s it going my good old friend?

Mighty fine, mighty fine

How are the workers my sweet dear?

Keeping em in line, keeping em in line

Create an atmosphere of constant fear

The CEO grumbled “They get too much pay”

Ain’t there a scheme to take it away?

Hmmm said Union Pretend let me think

I’ll consult the sell outs and my fink

I believe we could create another war

It’s an old trick but it worked well before

We’ll scream patriotism and have the flag wave

Tell em we all gotta sacrifice and be brave

Then of course the profits will soar

We’ll pay them less and work em more

 

In his heart the CEO hated Union Pretend

In fact he wanted all thoughts of Unions to end

But for now he needed to put on a show

A few more years maybe it wouldn’t be so

So Big Bucks poured the expensive French wine

A toast was made to the ruling elite

Things are going just mighty fine

The drink was poison but tasted oh so sweet

Caribbean Ocean at Night

 

Ocean

A night no stars in the sky

Waves in motion

Black as the day you die

 

Ocean

She is the giver of life

The Great Spirit’s wife

The notion

That she is all good

Is misunderstood

For in the darkness

She is wicked and forbidding

By look no way of knowing

Her Love and giving

 

Come

Rise sun rise

Shine in glory fill the skies

Teach the ocean to shine

Make the Mother of Life divine

So she can enter your kingdom

Fascists Fail to Think

 

Fascists fail to think

Boots polished to a shine

Marching precisely in line

Uniform pristine

Bellies trim and lean

 

Fascists fail to think

Charging up yonder hill

Bayonets fixed to kill

In war there are no rules

Except the theorem of the bigger fools

 

Fascists fail to think

Why must we obey?

Why are things this way?

Never mind screams the head

Just do what I said

 

Fascists fail to think

Except when shot

And all rhetoric is forgot

Belly full of lead

Moments until dead

There is an agony small

Perhaps we weren’t right

After all

Fascists fail to think