Esau

An homage to Esau
Is difficult as his shifty
Brother Jacob tricked Esau
Out of their father’s blessing
With a sheepskin setting the
Precedent of folks with sheepskin
Diplomas tricking blue collar
Workers out of economic
Security ever since.
Clever design
Engineers
Make
Lunch
Rooms
In state
Office spaces
With no windows
In drab wall colors meant
To make lunch so unpleasant
Workers would eat fast and
Go back to work and other
Similar tricks to herd folks
Along without regard to
Their dignity and self
Worth all to pay
Lower echelon
Staff even
Lower
Wages
While the
Rich own most
Of our American
Wealth but do not
Pay most of our taxes
In the same patriotic ratio.
Time for a revised tax code
To tax the rich more equitably
And reduce taxes on the middle
Class using both an income
Tax and an assets tax
To lower the amount
Of wealth that one
Person can have
To five million
2020 Dollars,
Use the assets
And taxes collected
To pay off our national
Debt and fund our military
Infrastructure restoration
Medicare/Medicaid for
All and academic
Scholarships
Based on
Talent
Not Esau’s
Parents pockets
All in pursuit of
Sheepskin
Diplomas.