Poem: Better With Your Stupid Face Covered

Poem: Better With Your Stupid Face Covered

Tim Mills

Illustration: Chaos Culture Jam, by Chris Dyer. Prints for sale.
 
 

Better With Your Stupid Face Covered

I saw you on tv yellin’ at kids shrouded crowded on a bus
Right then it seemed as you screwballs just screamed
That lady liberty’s got lungs full of pus
‘Cause they’re yearning to breathe free
To be safe in the arms of their families
But you said usa usa go away
You can’t stay in the alamo today
Much less four score n seven years
The guv says he’s the guy who steers
Segregation now tomorrow forever
Eyes n EARs don’t SEE DON’T HEAR the lever
WHAT’S REALLY GOIN’ ON WHILE THOSE SPONGES YOU SALUTE
Laughin’ always to the BANK of ill-repute
As your 7th inning stretch awaits
You’re still a section eight trend-setter
N YOU’D LOOK a whole lot BETTER
WITH YOUR STUPID FACE COVERED UP BY UNDERPANTS
WHILE FEARLESS red the ELEPHANT RANTS
‘BOUT ‘PEACHIN’ THE PREZ Singin’ glory GLORY HALlelUJAH
His ruthless marchin’ on-n-n-ward christian soldiers
More worried ‘bout their folger’s
Than kids who ride the beast thru mexico just to meet
New n interesting gringos who eat los vendedores treats
N open carry their kimber guns of navarone
Heckuva movie dontcha know you need leather hands to hoe
Which way the hate grows up to be a wide-eyed
Boll weevil state senator son of a ‘pliance salesman
N neighborhood watch commander damn good right hander
Who kept an eye out for them tadpoles on the block

Tick tock tick tock tick tock
More sooner than later hunger awakens
The forsaken unseen unsung demeaned among
All others so numbered as common livestock
That once unchained we blast off earthshaken
From a visionary fast to a sit-down
Funk-driven dinner at last
[2014]

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  2. Christine Mills

    You r very good at writing the lingo just like dad did in his writings…puts the put out there or should I say in there….such as an arrow in the heart, ice pick in the hairy eyeball or in this case…….panties over the culprits face….like it!

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