Sheriff Deputies Of Banks Poem by O Anna Niemus

The bank was required in that state
to give only 10 days notice to
people whose landlord had been
foreclosed upon.

The gun toting deputies arrived
to enforce an eviction... from a 5 story
walkup with no elevator.

It was a hot day and the crew did
not want to exert themselves. An
air conditioner was thrown out the window,
crushing dandelions and their satellite
bees. No children were in its path,
by angels' arrangement, not the caution
of the enforcers.

A toddler began to cry quietly when
his stuffed puppy was taken.

A box of borrowed library tapes, books,
and CD's was scattered on the lawn,
$200 worth. The people's property was treated
with no more respect than the tenants'.

Passersby began picking through
a family's treasure, taking what they
could cart away.

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Banks, pharmaceuticals and their vivisectors, war profiteers,
butchers, food monopolists dominate the Bush regime.
America's biggest banks and mutual funds firms have
caused a record of tens of millions of evictions, foreclosures,
food line queues, homelessness, living in cars.