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Laurie Kennedy

The plea of BeiBionn'

You can have your magic beans Jack,
your children are hungry and we need the cow back.

The lack of just terms and equitable or fair pacts,
expose all crooked beanstalks to concerted attacks.

Unless obsessive cycles are stopped in their tracks,
our towns will again be as flat as tacks.

You have been too trusting Jack,
your children's futures remain black,
while current problems compound through lack,

Struggle earnestly against the pack,
repudiate rights to depreciatingly retract,
as giants fortress lie ripe for sack.

For only fair shares of the golden goose Jack,
will save beanstalks and giants from the axe.


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