To The Leaders

A toast

Thanks to you

  We have a multi-trillion dollar deficit that we can pull together to retire in a million years.

Because of you

  children of the destitute starve under cardboard boxes.

Under you

  our flag waves assent to the rape of the world’s resources and the decimation of penguins and polar bears.

We the people,

  the hardest-working, most efficient in the world,

  many of whom are recompensed with minimum wage,

  whose fears of losing insurance or status are unfamiliar to you,

  who watch life on television while you play at St. Moritz,

We salute you.

  Raspberries!