Ease and Squeeze

 

Give and take

Is like ease and squeeze,

Our PM knows when to press gas

And when to freeze.

 

She needs to freeze

Cause she’s been on the gas

And the little we’ve accumulated

Is slipping away quite fast.

 

We need an ease

Cause we getting squeeze,

Cost of living continues to rise

Prices need to freeze.

 

Give and take isn’t working

At least, it is not for me,

I’m not numbered among the rich

And surely, I’m not wealthy.

 

 

 

Prices need to ease

For example, on gasoline

Plus, the quality of the gas we get

Is enough to make one scream.

 

Put in less than $60

And it’s gone the next day,

At present, driving on gasoline fumes,

Seems to be the Bajan way.

 

Do we pay VAT on petrol?

I would like to know,

Cause VAT and Tax at the fuel pump

Is definitely a “no-no”

 

Some roads are atrocious

In spite of the tax at the pump,

We have many slow-down potholes

Instead of the usual hump.

 

And worst when it rains

We’d better learn to swim

For given the depth of some potholes

There might be a drowning.

 

We need an ease

From these expensive potholes

For the way my money is going

My pocket must have holes.

 

 

Supermarkets are a trip

And once was a weekly squeeze

But now the money can’t stretch;

We definitely want an ease.

 

I was there day before

And I went back today,

Ordinarily it would have been a week

But this is no longer the way.

 

I am not “hand-to-mouth’

So, you can understand

What a challenge it is for others

With a lesser budgeted plan.

 

If they ever stop junk food

Some people will not eat

For the acquisition of a balanced diet

Is an inaccessible feat.

 

Well not for the well-off

Like the higher echelons,

But for the poor and vulnerable,

This hope is long gone.

 

Less ease, more squeeze

More give, less take,

The better off is given more

Less is the poor man’s stake.

 

So many poor among us

Not enough to go around,

Just enough for a few more pearls

To add to the rich man’s crown.

 

 

 

A huge gulf between

The rich and the very poor

And that gulf is widened by Government

Even more and more.

 

We need an ease

I have to reiterate,

Please, those who have been elected,

Improve the poor man’ state.

 

Stewart Russell © November 19, 2024