A CRIME OF THE TIMES

POLICE INVESTIGATING LYNN SHOOTING

High home sales
While our safety fails.

Left to pity
The state of our city.

Don't buy the spin
The cause is jobs coming in.

Look at the news and shout
"The reality is people want out!"

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM

DNC KICKS OFF IN PHILLY

Friends are everywhere but hard to find
In a city full of siblings with a rivalry unkind.

Held in the birthplace of an unfinished revolution
With promises of answers for a final solution.

Democracy has always been a distant, faint mirage
To provide for the chains a neat little camoflage.

A CONVENTION OF CHAOS

PHILLY LOOKS TO TRUMP GOP

History we will make
If baggage we take.

A matter of trust
Cause power we lust.

Given no choice to chose
Freedom to lose.

YOUR VOTE DOESN'T COUNT

MAYOR VS. CITY COUNCIL: JOB IS PRIMARY CONCERN

YOUR VOTE DOESN'T COUNT

To the new position she says "NO"
Cause if more people vote, she'd have to go.

She says she's concerned about cost
But with her recent raise that point is lost.

Even though the council overrid her veto
Threatens to stop on the downlow.

So their power she tossed
Showing them she won't be bossed.

WE GOT OUT PACED

In Lynn when you don't keep PACE you fall behind.
To the tune of $1.95 Mil comes to mind.

Because of a whistle he did blow
Fortucci said he had to go.

Since the case went to court
I am sad to report

The judge did say
With taxes you will pay!

THE BALLAD OF MONROE STREET

The silence broken by a chain saw's buzz

Falling down a tree that was.

All in the name of fleeting fame

For hopes of being in the game.

No song for a plant to cry

Just a little more beauty left to die.

It's only the price we pay

When fools pretend to play.

PUBLIC BENJAMINS

Had enough of your praise
Now I want a RAISE!

I know money is owed everywhere
But do I look like I care?

Sure the city is short on cash
And the rats are feasting on our trash.

Think of how my credibility will soar
When no one around me makes more!