Do Your Job

Posted by Brad Osborne on February 22, 2021 · 20 Comments 

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I know being re-elected

Is your greatest concern

A truth Civics did not teach

But somehow, I have learned

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So, spare me all your rhetoric

Sweet words to fill our ears

Work for all to benefit

In your term of many years

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For what you say, will fade away

And what is left, is just what’s done

How hard you work to care for us

Measured in getting another one

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I do not understand the need

To reach across the aisle

An aisle should not divide us

This birthplace of political guile

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On one side sits Americans

Americans on the other side too

How much more common ground

Needs to be seen by the few

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We pay you well enough

To expect your very best

And if you cannot deliver

You are no better than the rest

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But if being re-elected

Is all you care about

I hope we show up again

And surely vote you out

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