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by Lisa ‘Tiny’ Gray-Garcia, POOR Magazine
Fighting for the crumbs –
Cuz that’s all we have, Sun
EBT SSI Section 8
Hardly anything left on the
Poor peoples’ plate
So yeah, it’s time to vote for number 3 of the dusty wite campaign slate
I don’t endorse any politricksters, but I’m scared for our crumbs this time, fam
So yeah, I’m talking ‘bout Bernie right now in this poem
Neither CheesePuff or billionaireBerg
Nothing comes from these fools but more danger and mama earth hurt
No matter what
these extractors only interested in what they have to do to
ratchet up the profit
Politicks ain’t nothin’ but a trick
But then, being absent from the vote can make us sick
NO, one day in that booth – that don’t bring the absolute truth
Don’t SAVE us or bring back stolen land, water or our roots
Voting is only one tool in upending the ruse
But get involved
Wake Up –
Stay Up and Rise Up
The Liars and tricksters are lining up to steal more lives,
Spending billions when they could build housing, liberate land
Or pay fair wages for our hard work and time
So in the end – I still call out –
Where my poor people at of colors & cultures –
Even those covertly wearing the kkklan hat
or the hegemonic wrap
& the hate for each other based on the ruling class tracks
Open yo eyes – cuz family – we all need our meager crumbs to stay alive
And this fool gonna keep stealing, raping & killing as long as we collectively let him
reside in the site peoples house built by enslaved Black & Indigenous tribes
This message from a poverty skola – goes out to my fellow poor folks from all nations, generations colors stations –
From EBT to Section 8, the lies politricksters have continued to perpetrate
But we r at a moment that this evil CheesePuff in the wite people’s house has to end their
Reign –
and I don’t usually do this – but I’m lifting up Bernie –
I don’t usually do this – but I’m lifting up Bernie
He ain’t everything – he ain’t my savior and we will see how much of that poverty concern will actually stick with him
but we need to vote the CheesePuff out for our collective survival as poor people –
and the narrative has to change
Poor People Housing already e-RADicated by Obama
Section 8 bled to barely paper
Fukclosure, bankkksters & poverty industry saviors
CheesePuff didn’t even have to do this –
Never fear politricksters been dismantling
But CheesePuff is busy robbing, raping mama earth, while we all stay focused on Big Pharma’s newest virus
proposing the end of food stamps, and insane requirements from SSI – targeting indigenous refugees from Cambodia to southern turtle island – standing with global murderers of poor and Indigenous people from Kashmir to the Congo –
Slathering messy wite privilege across Mama Earth from Palestine to Syria
The violent wite supremacist CheesePuff wealth-hoarder is planning increased criminalization of false borders, plantation prisons and endless surveillance –
Don’t get it twisted – I’m not holding Bernie up as our “progressive” leader – but he just might not destroy, Take away or steal the crumbs we all need to live – and get older
The DemoCONS will not save us and neither will Bernie – but the Violent CheesePuff has to go before we lose the crumbs and scarcity models we barely holding onto
In the end – voting for us poor folks is a hassle – we have to get to the polling places – deal with all the politricks they have in place to steal our vote,
But do that work – get out to those polls – honor the ancestors who died for your voting souls – and like POOR Magazine uncovered last year, u don’t need an address to vote –
So please, my fellow houseless fam – get yourself to City Hall and sign that politrickster note
And even though, for us poor people, Super Tuesday is also How am I gonna get enough food day,
Make that time – stand in that line – so more of us poor & disabled peoples won’t die
Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, aka “povertyskola,” is a poet, teacher and the formerly houseless, incarcerated daughter of Dee and mama of Tiburcio and author of “Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America” and “Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-led Theory, Art, Words and Tears Across Mama Earth” and co-founder of Homefulness, a homeless people’s solution to homelessness. Reach her at www.lisatinygraygarcia.com or @povertyskola on Twitter.
