Fuck!
An expression that seems to escape
My lips an awful lot these days
Funny how people jump
At the sight of a light
When we're stuck in a tunnel
And more amusing for the little bit
Of relief to show itself
Bright and shining like a big old fat twinkly star
Only to shrink like lightening
To the likes of pin prick
When you follow it down to the end
Sometimes it's just enough to make
The toaster look like a fine
Companion to a hot bath, but
Hey! Everyone's got problems, right?
"I'm Afraid of Americans"
Because we're all poor and pissed off
With nowhere to turn but a good credit score
And when you don't have that
You've just got four children with
No Christmas and a rocky business
And love, right?
Who the hell came up with
That justification for starvation, anyway?
Some people have a head start and fall
On their caboose
No brain in their head to lead those
Overflowing pockets
And when I see that
I can't help but wonder what the
Hell we're trying to accomplish
Here on this fine mass of
The international real estate
And then some have the mind but no
Entry fee to make it to lift off
The rest of us just float around
With chewed up thumb nails and
Hard-earned crow's feet
Waiting for the day we'll strike the lotto
Big for winning or lose it all
Hurry up and die
Sounds like strawberry JELL-O if you ask me
Survival really should not
Be a gamble in a place so privileged
(Does anyone else see how twisted that is?)
Belly should not be expelling foodstamp
Breakfast on the tightrope of impending doom
Before every eight-hour shift of working
To pay for a goddamned human necessity
I wanna go off grid, you know
Away from people
Who don't think twice before toying with
Your hopes and good will
The taxes are paid in squirrel nuggets and high fives
And no one puts a lien on the mountainside cave
You bought in full
Name on title means nothing to
Uncle Sam
I will find one day a place in the trees
Where the money is made from
Quail feathers and poison ivy leaves
So that the only thing I'll ever have to say
FUCK!
About again is a blistering
Rash in the crack of my
Ass