Today’s prompt for the Poem-A-Day Challenge is to write a “news of the day” poem. I had not caught the news on television, so I went to Google News. I found little I wanted to read, but one article seemed timely…
They Did Not Tell US
Sometimes government
Gives citizens incomplete
Information or
Tells what appear outright lies;
Politician propaganda.
Everyone wanted
Improvement to the system,
But it was working
For many of the people;
Now it’s totally broken.
Some who were happy
With the coverage they had,
Now suddenly find
Their health plans being cancelled;
Replacements cost a fortune.
The outrageous fines,
The unneeded coverage,
Increased premiums,
Bank breaking deductibles;
Were never even mentioned.
Insurance reform
Was the promise as given,
But the cure seems worse
Than the symptoms of disease;
Affordable it is not.
© Jo Ann J. A. Jordan
Saturday, November 2, 2013
I hope I am overreacting. I hope it is not the disaster it seems, but I am concerned that we may all be in for worse than we have ever dreamed.
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