[Newspoetry] Maybe It's Walmart

[Mike Lehman]

The very same week
The Business & Ag Section
Of the News-Gazette
Told those few
Who read its tawdry
Propaganda of neo-liberalism
That nowhere in the US
Can a person afford a home
On the minimum wage

A couple in Iowa
(One of the 50 states
Where workers on the minimum wage
Cannot afford a home)
Were arrested
For putting their daughters on leashes
In the motel room
Where the family lived