I thought I had heard
That food prices were coming down
But my supermarket experience
Makes me feel like a clown.
There was to be cap on this
And a cap on that
But somewhere along the line
The cap fell off and that’s a fact.
I knew that I couldn’t buy legs
Or even chicken breast
But I could get chicken steppers
And an assortment of the rest.
But even so I had to admit
That food prices gone up higher
And that they never came down,
Don’t you dare call me a liar.
To be fair they requested
We be patient for it to take effect
But much time has passed
And that hasn’t happened yet.
Were that the case
The prices should not have moved
But the prices actually gone up;
Like they taking me for a fool.”
“The cost of living come down
But you can’t see it with the naked eye.”
Stated a politician some time back
And he was dead serious, no lie.
If that is the case today
They are messing with my head
Cause things are not only brown
But I also seeing red.
The thing about politicians-
I mean the ones that get in:
Their experience is not my experience,
For them things are not grim.
What things we are forced to buy
Parliamentarians sometimes get free,
It’s just one of the perks;
Become one and you will see.
They don’t feel the cost of living pinch
In the same way that we do,
We made them high up and better off
It’s time we admit this is true.
It is not only at election time
That politicians mess with our head
But more so after the elections
When to the slaughter we are led.
I am neither a “B” nor a “D”
In fact, not even an “A” or a “C”
So, do not expect too much from me
For I am just a discontented “E”.
I am just bright enough to know
They are messing with my head
But I am not smart enough to know
What I can do instead.
When I vote “B” I lose,
If I vote “D” I cannot win,
All I can do is take what comes
With a wince and a grin.
So, don’t let anyone fool you
That food prices have come down,
You are much brighter than I am
And you are nobody’s clown.
Stewart Russell © September 26, 2022
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