99 Percent Strong

99 Percent Strong

by Sam Flot  2011

for the American Autumn

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Abe Lincoln looked at me

From the side of a penny and said “1993

In God We Trust ~ Liberty

Another day you worked all you get is one of me

“What happens to the other 99 cents?”  I asked old Abe

“A dollar a day is minimum wage

If I only get a penny how can I save?

How can I buy food?  Should I live in a cave?”

Abe answered me after a real long stare

“Get outta my mind, get outta my hair 

I don’t think it’s legit and fair, it’s not my deal, not that I don’t care

Get your own soapbox,  go down to your own town square

I freed the slaves and for that you see

This pretty profile of mine can grace a penny

A sarcastic honor, it  just might be

99% getting just one Lincoln  penny

We live here right now no money no jobs

We can’t trust the government, they call us a mob

We can only go to the streets and scream and sob

The health code enforced by the tear gas they lob

Hey there Abe, you’re a damn good penny

But we need more than that from this land of plenty

We follow the orders of the one percent for a fee

They let us subsist scraping by just barely

One percent you’ve used of us all for too long

One percent takes from the 99 percent strong

Every bully has it’s day and it won’t be long

Until 99 percent stands up 99 percent strong

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