The revolution
will be televised;
it’ll be posted
on the Internet
3 weeks in advance
Tickets may be purchased
with any major credit card
souvenir T shirts
will be made available
Ralph Nader will
be interviewed on CNN
Dick Gregory will
have his new diet plan
to make for thinner
and healthier revolutionaries;
a séance will be held
to recall Bobbie Kennedy
and Martin Luther King JR
folks will both quote
and misquote MLK JR and Gandhi;
someone will sell buttons
and window decals and bumper stickers
and we’ll all think we’re for real
when we proudly post colors
and think it’s a statement
Street vendors hawking programs
of the Resistance;
the tour de force moment
when we just say so
and the soundbites simply
don’t cut it anymore
Clever marketing might
sell really cheap but
but it doesn’t sell
radical ideology
and the wordplay of black jargon
and wannabe whiggers
who don’t have a clue
and don’t realize just
exactly who is laughing at them
put it on a 32 ounce Slurpee cup
Let all the folks
see the statistics
can’t keep it
can’t touch it
plastic ain’t biodegradable
seems we fucked up the planet
without even trying
that seems the scary part
at least it does to me
Hitler had gall enough
to make us evil
we became evil
when we saw the dollar bill
Allen Ginsberg wrote a new poem
and LeRoi Jones changed his nane
and Random House flipped a coin
and gave Ginsberg money
Consumers take it up the ass
as the profits come marching in
and original thought
has been patented and sanitized
sold to the highest bidder
would that it were so
that we’re not gonna take it
just do it and gain your revenge
It’s about time
to cut to a commercial
so we’ll hold up the rebellion
while our TV sponsors get
to have their Air Jordans
and cheap beer and burgers;
gotta get that corporate dollar
and get yourself ahead—
folks we’ll be right back
after this exciting word
from our sponsors. . .
7-14-96
That's gold!
That's gold!
Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS
"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."
Thank you but I think I only
Thank you but I think I only got the silver medal for this one