Aloha And Good Riddance Poem by Joe Rosochacki

Mahalo was the greeting that is said in the 50th state,
What has occurred with the number of homeless people in Hawai'i could make Pele irate.
It is apparent that the homeless are not dumb.
The homeless in Hawai'i are a lot more than a 'beach bum'.
They live in a land of Hana Li.
But the state wants them out,
The state wants to fly them back to the mainland.
Hawai'i considers it cheaper to give them a one ticket out of paradise,
The homeless shouldn't think twice,
If you had a choice between smoggy filled LA, or cold and rainy Seattle,
Or pitch a hammock between a couple of coconut trees
And listen to Don Ho's Tiny Bubbles, and hardly any insects to battle,
Filled up with Poi and SPAM,
Pretend that you are on the set of Hawaii-Five-0,
When McGarret says 'Book 'em Dan-O.'
Or when you dream you are an extra on the set with Tom Selleck,
- on Magnum P.I.
But that's fantasy, there is trouble brewing in paradise,
Sit back, I'll tell you why.
The average cost of a homeless person is $34,000 per year,
The state will find it will be running out money quickly
-and it will not shed a tear,
To those who live off of the states dowry if would they leave and leave soon.
The state officials worry about pan-handlers on the beach bothering tourists in Waikiki.
The former Sandwich Island people are being sandwiched between a struggling economy,
And a run on state funds, a chaotic financial melee.
What to do about it?
Hawai'i is liable to have a 'round-up' of non-Hawai'ian state born people,
like cattle in the old west,
The state could 'brand them' electronically not to stay in the state;
for beyond two weeks and a day.
I predict that there would be a fractionalized America,
The states in the great lakes region keeping their water,
The southwestern states dealing with immigration troubles as they seem fit,
If we catch it now, we are not going to encounter a civil; war of a different kind,
But yet the same kind in 1861.
Though times have changed it is going to be us versus them,
All coincided with the original premise of the Civil War,
Which was not slavery, but state's rights over Federal Laws,
And economic sectionalism.*


7-31-10

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