wisconsin poem # 4

will the citizens who voted for that governor and his cohorts rejoice when their kids’ teachers are fired perhaps themselves if they are teachers? the most experienced going first, natch when class sizes are increased to sixty? when smart people will no longer go into teaching? the wisconsin salaries are well below ours in illinois and now they’ll have no recourse on anything is this a political poem of course it isn’t even a poem I am a wisconsinite but an illinois teacher with pension, benefits I worked hard still am so is my badger daughter this isn’t just about greedy teachers and the state north of us this will affect the whole country wisconsin was bought thanks to the supreme court’s big biz myopia they saw corporations as people we are all being bought this coup is more than dirty politics this is war! today we have a sweet moment of victory though it might not last through the inevitable costly recount the right person won by 204 votes up there on Tuesday 204 votes! it could make a huge difference don’t let anybody ever tell you your vote doesn’t count * * * well I’m afraid I’m telling you now if your vote happens to be one of 14,000 that didn’t get “sent in” till two days after the election and has reversed the outcome it may be withheld till convenient I thought this only happened in chicago

© 2011 Jacqueline Jackson