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Lawn Mower
If you've ever had your lawnmower's two-stroke engine Screech violently, freeze up, shut down, For your having forgotten, repeatedly, to check its oil,
Then you know how abruptly the machinery can die into silence, How quickly that sickening realization arises, In which you confront, if not dire consequences, inconvenience.
Today, the lender/consumer engine that drives the economy Gives every indication of seizing, ceasing to exist, Leaving almost every citizen to subsist by his wits and grit,
Without the traditional safety nets of a steady job, A pension, health insurance, Social Security, And with foreclosure and credit-card default looming forebodingly.
These days, our struggling country is a neglected lawn mower. Millions of Americans are sweating, panting, cursing, As they tug, frantically, at a starter cord that won't even budge.
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