November 20, 2010


An F is an F when it's stamped on your head

So, they branded you a failure because you didn't
make their straight A's,
now their children line up to buy tickets 
to your performance,
their parents don't know that you were the one.


What good?

What good is a picture if it stays in your camera?
What good is a painting if the brush never touches canvass?
What good is a poem if it stays in your mind?
What good is a trillion dollars, 
if only two people get to spend it?
What good is your mind if you don't use it?



Make them more like us

I say kill all the beggars,
or at least put them in prison camps,
make them work for a living like we do.



Everybody flunks

There are no easy answers,
perhaps because the questions 
have been designed to be hard.



Poverty, for some of us, luckily, is a state of mind.

I am poor in appearance, perhaps, to you
but you are trapped by all you have and do.
I might be happier at the public pool
than you are at the country club.



On the skreets

A peasant on the pavement
isn't leading a pleasant existence.



They have already taken it away

If we are allowed to discuss it freely,
then there is no freedom in it.



What they're not telling you on tv

Stay even keep on peddling like a dog
Most everybody is coming to the realization
that.



This way

Everybody wants to be something
that is basically the same thing.
I am what most none of you 
would want to be, and I like it.




Those guilty will be elected

Got a lot of money?
Don't care about the common man?