Paul Revere

Aug 01 2011 Filed in: Jims Poems
Paul Revere
 
After Paul Revere warned
The people of Boston,
He kept on riding,
Down to New York City, crying
“The bankers are coming,
The bankers are coming.”
But the people of New York
Were sleeping, or pretending to,
And soon Manhattan was infiltrated
By bankers, and brokers,
And scoundrels of every stripe.
 
So Paul Revere rode on,
Rode through the night
And through the next day,
Rode to Philadelphia,
Where the Continental Congress
Were gathered.
 
“The bankers are coming,
The bankers are coming!”
He cried, “and soon
They will own America,
And its politicians, too!”
But they just stared back
In amusement and said,
“They already do.”