What Will it Take to Get You to Rage?…by Robert M. Katzman
There are thru time men who lust to rule
They only see others as less than them
Other men’s pride a footstool to step on
Especially, men too terrified to resist
Mostly men who will always say:
Well, what can I do? You don’t understand
Mortgage, kids, college, wife, car and life
All at the mercy of the Big Man
It is the cowards who allow women to be defiled
It is cowards who allow girls to be treated as whores
The Big Man has his needs, his pleasures
No matter what, ya gotta keep the Big Man quiet
Old people fear somehow losing their checks
Like the Big Man can take it away
Black, Brown and fearful immigrants are kept in their place
Because the Big Man says he holds all the cards
But only if everyone’s spine’s been ripped out
Only if timid Senators desperately grasp their seats
The Big Man knows how much status means
And toys with scattering their power to the wind
When Party means more than what kind of country this is
When good men–and strong women–fear to resist his evil
When the Big Man decides what’s moral and not
Then we deserve to fear what we’ll see in the mirror
Many of us live here because our grandparents wanted to give us a chance
This was supposed to be the last best place to be free to be
So many depend on us still believing in ourselves, that we are still brave
That no place, no power and no man can diminish the United States
Let the good people in government find the courage to rise up
There is a law they can use: the 25th amendment
And throw the son-of-a-bitch out of his playpen
The worst they can do to him is take away his power
Men, women, and all of the colors that we are together
Stop allowing the Big man to represent what we are to the world
Throw the bum out! Throw the bum out! We have it within us to
Throw the bum out, and let him learn how little he really is
Do it
robertmkatzman@gmail.com
Just one angry voice, but ya gotta start somewhere
I owned a wooden newsstand in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago when Richard J. Daley ran Chicago. I know about political intimidation, corruption, bribery and being expected to kiss the Big Man’s ass. Takes guts to resist when your license can be pulled at any time. I could have done more to fight back in 1965.
I’m doing that now.
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Publishing News!
Bob Katzman’s two new true Chicago books are now for sale, from him!
Vol. One: A Savage Heart and Vol. Two: Fighting Words
Gritty, violent, friendship, classic American entrepreneurship love, death, heartbreak and the real dirt about surviving in a completely corrupt major city under the Chicago Machine. More history and about one man’s life than a person may imagine.
Please visit my new website: http://www.dontgoquietlypress.com
If a person doesn’t want to use PayPaI, I also have a PO Box & I ship anywhere in America.
Send me a money order with your return and contact info.
I will get your books to you within ten days.
Here’s complete information on how to buy my books:
Vol 1: A Savage Heart and Vol. 2: Fighting Words
My books weigh almost 2 pounds each, with about 525 pages each and there are a total together of 79 stories and story/poems.
Robert M. Katzman
Dont Go Quietly Press
PO Box 44287
Racine, Wis. 53404-9998 (262)752-3333, 8AM–7PM
Books cost $29.95 each, plus shipping
For: (1)$3.95; (2)$5.95; (3)$7.95; (4)$8.95 (5)$9.95;(6) $10.95
(7) $11.95; (8) $12.95; (9)$13.95 (10)$15.95 (15)$19.95
I am also for hire if anyone wants me to read my work and answer questions in the Chicago/Milwaukee area. Schools should call me for quantity discounts for 30 or more books. Also: businesses, bookstores, private organizations or churches and so on.
My Fighting Words Publishing Co. four original books, published between 2004 and 2007 are now out-of-print. I still have some left and will periodically offer them for sale on my new website.