It rains a lot...

 

$2.77 per pound

6 dollars for a jar

Of Peanut Butter

More if organic

Meanwhile

It rains a lot

In Florida

$4.77 per gallon

Of Orange juice

22 dollars

For the small sixpack

Of the morning essential

The basics of 

An American 

School kids

Breakfast and lunch

Orange juice

For both 

And Peanut butter

As well depending

Cereal with PeanutButter

Granola with peanuts

They even produce

Coffee and cigarettes

With a citrus taste.

What is everyone

Going to do?

They expect the prices

To escalate

To double in just

This next year

Twice as much

For the essentials

We sold the tobacco

Farm a century ago

But the coffee 

We kept on paying

Growers for our

Little businesses

Importers and exporters

We once had a nut farm

Where we dried fruit

And packaged nuts

Of all kinds

We even had our own

Wine label

We were not the Gallos

Nor the Carters

Fresh fruits 

And nut spreads

The Nineteenth century

Is long gone

And so are our coffers

There are still those

Who believe they can

Bleed a turnip dry

And still have the handout

For more and more.

There were even oils

Olive oils 

And avocados

Alot of work it was

Then along came

Those university kids

Who thought the future

Was elsewhere....

It rains a lot

In Florida

The trees have taken a hit

Importing from Brazil

Is not going to well

For those citrus growers

Fresh Florida oranges!

Hey this came from 

Some place called

Rio de Janeiro

What do they know

About growing fruit?

All they have is

Cows and cowboys

Correct?

California has been

Hit by the heat as well

As the rain

It is too dry in most

Areas where it is not

Too wet 

Unhappy conditions

For that perfect

Garden

As for Cuba...

There is a joke

Somewhere in there

The last time 

We had a Catholic President

He got in trouble

With those guys 

From Russia?

Hmm, bad and worse

We know Kennedy 

Was assassinated

But Biden seems

To have gotten

Too much bad news

His whole life

Was ahead of him

When his wife 

Was killed

And he was not 

Thirty 

Now over seventy

And he has finally

Gotten inside the 

White House

Not just that guy

Standing and waving

Next to the President

His two sons

Were all he had

And they have both

Been taken from him

When in death

After fighting a war

Over there in the Middle East

And the other to drugs

And violence

Got caught with a handgun

Now they want him to go

To prison for it

I can imagine

Someone wanting

Me to have protection

And getting one for me

But then it would be stolen

Even when I was working

And one would be assigned

To me as part of the job

It would disappear

From the safe next to my bed

Betty Adelman is good at getting 

Things out of private homes

If I did not know better

She was the one who made

The shot in Dallas

Even though a midget

And a retard

She hates things

She takes care of things

Now this man

Has nothing left

But his second wife

And those extra kids

What are they going to do

Sight see the rest of their lives?

Anyways in case 

You have not noticed

Russia is making a stop

A tiny vacation 

In Havanna

With four ships

One of which is a submarine

And Guantanamo

The other side of the island

Has acquired an American 

Nuclear Submarine

Anyone remember 

The Bay of Pigs?

How about the Maine?

1961 after

The take over 

By rebels 

There was this thing

That occurred

We were not officially

At war with Cuba

Nor Russia

But men did die

Defending democracy

1898

We did go to war

The Spanish American war

Supported mainly by the 

Latter Day Saints

According to their histories

An easy exchange for statehood

We captured Mexico City

And then gave up much

Of the lower states

Some of us still

Argue about the Rio Grande

Being the marker

Instead of much lower

Where many families

Had been given the 

Impression they could 

Start lives anew 

With homesteads

And ranches or orchards

Why did we give up

The land already occupied?

And then they wont stay

Down where they come from

They say Mexico is too oppressive!

It is just all those drug dealers

No life left in the villages

They wont expensive phones

For anyways?

The Fruit farms

Are not doing well

The costs are too high

With this bad weather

They are not going to find

Work on those places

Unless they intend

To go elsewhere...

It is not the worthless jobs

Wasted on people

Who could be doing

Other things

It is they have become

The main component

Of doctors and hospitals

As well as private security

Where no one feels safe anymore

They are still tied to those

People with drugs

Even if it is just information

All those people 

With no place to go

And then you meet

People like Teresa

Who's whole family

Are involved with drugs

And smuggling

And anything illegal

She did not free

Juan and Alejandro

From anything at all

She continues to steal

From me and mine

Because she has the right

To do so....

There he is in Italy

Looking stunned and 

Not knowing how to 

Control his inner struggles

While he must show

No weakness to the world

Not even his faith

He is catholic

In a Catholic country

Being defiant to those

Other guys 

Who are Orthodox

What end is he attempting

To achieve?

Another assassination?

If he goes down

It is said she will not stand

The word on the street

They don't want a woman

In the first place

And in the second.....

They have already 

Had Michelle

The Queen take over

All things American

When one is approached

And told to get back

On your boat

And go back to England

As a Native American

With European roots

It is distrubing

And we walked by the way

While most of the immigrants

Have arrived by plane

Even those Africans

Who are not really 

Slave descendants

But take up the space

In lines and other places

What is America

Doing giving money 

To a guy who is not

Even the elected government

Official anymore?

His grandchildren

Better be able to bring

Him home 

Meanwhile another 

Contender is lying

There perhaps

Dreaming of his life

And wife 

Jimmy Carter

Is said to be sleeping away

His days with no more

Reason to stay with us all

The last of the old crowd

He served in the war

Did you know?

The last President

To do so

Reagan was a stay at home

Radio announcer 

And the others are too young

Eighty years ago 

D day put in end

To a war which altered

The structure of the modern world

Or did it ?

What price have we paid

For our own democracy?

May we not die in our sleep...