When The Going Gets Weird #2

The secret is to look like Halloween when it is Christmas.

The whole world needs to stick its finger down its throat and purge from its old way of existence. It'll be just like starting over," John Lennon might have said.

‎"When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose."--Bob Dylan, who, now, has a lot to lose.


Look At The Bums

Look at the bums,
here another one comes;

last week, maybe he had
a job in a factory,
but they downsized.

CEO got a bonus
for thinking that way;
everybody, especially
the stockholders, thinks
that he s a great man

eats off a ten thousand dollar plate
at the White House,
shakes the right hands.

Here comes a bum,
got a tear in his eye,
I immediately criticize,
say that he is a crack addict
who will want a quarter
from me.

He asks for money for food.

Why don t you get a job?
Why don t you get a job,
like me?

See,
you and me
we're living in the land
of opportunity.

Oh no,
I just lost my job.


The world owes me nothing because I'm here.(I really have to keep reminding myself of this, over and over. I love to sit on my pity pot). When you laugh, the world laughs with you; when you cry, you are fucking crying alone.

I often walk about the city attached to dogs in one hand, and a bag of shit in the other.


Let's pretend that Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a liar

Let's pretend that we don t have a soul,
that we don t know what s going on,
that as long as we keep paying the mortgage
that everything will be o.k.


Let's pretend that Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a liar,
and that people with millions, and billions of dollars
will act in our childrens' best interest.

See my child.
See him grow.
I don't want him to go to war.
No, no, no.

Let's pretend that if we close our eyes,
they won t cheat us blind,
that after all this time of screwing us
that they will now suddenly play fair.

Let's pretend that if it s happening over there,
it can t happen here.
Let's pretend that the religious man on the t.v.
doesn't just want our dollars,
and that politicians are not sleeping
with the chairmen of the board

Let's pretend that ketchup is a vegetable,
and that the homeless person is happy
living on the street.
Let's pretend that we don't need clean sea water,
and that it's o.k. that our rivers are polluted, too.
Let's pretend that three corporations owning
all the news outlets is the best way
to disseminate information.

Let's pretend that there really is a Santa Claus,
and that he will tell us what to do.

Everything might be better if I knew how to play the guitar.

I think that "A Revolution," has to target specific things; like my electric bill is way too fucking high, and Ga. Power probably makes a fuck load of money, so they should be attacked peacefully, and made to make less like so many other monopolies, or at least be made to make my bill way less. A bunch of burnouts, and malcontents gathering in parks across the country is going to do nothing, if The Revolution is generic. Getting arrested does nothing to set anyone free. Have there been any major changes to our way of life since The Protests began?