Huddled masses, yearning to be free
Enslaved to needs of you and me
Grow our crops, tend our fields
Beneath hard men who refuse to yield.
Packing impulsive desires
Things they can’t afford to acquire
Into mails, swift to ship
As technocrats crack the whip.
Clean our homes, porcelains gleaming
As we whisper about them stealing
Between haves and nots, lack of trust
But lives easier have we must.
Cooking our food, bussing tables
For them, leisure a fable
Pay stolen, tips robbed
Someone else always to take their job.
Plucking poultry, slaughtering cows
That we eat not caring how
Building houses they cannot buy
Day labored, for them the Dream is a lie.
Tasks we don’t want, below us
Glad others have to fuss
Out of sight, their travails we miss
To live in bubble shined bliss.
Working hurt and sick
To maximize hours, profits, and clicks
Herded in tenements, landlords’ rapacious
Cold baths, molds, stilled furnaces.
They only want a better life
Away from poverty and strife
If in their shoes you
What would you do?
Walking thousands of leagues
Familiar hearths they leave
Trekking deserts, jungles, seas
Tougher than you and me.
Cyclically we demonize them
Blaming for all injuries to our ken
Crimes committed; jobs taken
So easy to forsaken.
Pull themselves up by bootstraps
Preach we old mediocratic crap
But opportunity, hoard to our breast
For ourselves only, forsaking the rest.
Fanned by nativist rage
All across the newspaper page
We turn against our serfs
But only ourselves we hurt.
A nation lip serviced Christian
Spouting hollow benedictions
Forgetting commands Gospel
To the stranger, Pharisee hostile.
When tell the travelling poor
To deport from our shores
Forgetting we were them back when
Reveals more about us than them.
Better to keep them in penury, wicked
We have ourselves deluded permitted
To have our gluttonous fill
Grind tender souls up in Satanic mills.
Beware of politicians’ crazy
Exhorting arguments dishonest and lazy
Seeking to cast out immigrant throngs
Because trust me, when your stuff doesn’t come
You’ll miss them when they are gone.
