Good Morning Starbucks
Venti me
I’m going for the bypass tomorrow.
I woke up today, and my size twelve turned into a four
and I can’t get the zipper up.
I may need EMS to resuscitate me
from the latest god-dammed war
that’s killing all of our boys
And I’m asking MR. President
is this the price of overpopulation?
I want off this rollercoaster
I want healthcare that doesn’t penalize you
for not having it. I want healthcare
that is affordable and accessible.
Good Morning America
I need a Zen moment
a place to exhale
all the garbage from my black lungs
coughed up in the trenches of foreign wars
because my credit just went down the tubes
needs a little gold to
prevent my guts
from being blown up in a chopper
in a bombed out country
that hires kids as mercenaries.
Hey, America!
Stop the bullshit
the soap opera propaganda.
Don’t you see that we are all citizens of the same planet?
Good Morning America
Let’s toast our Statue of Liberty
before China calls in her note
before the oceans are smothered in plastic and
NASA reaches a final destination.
We need a plan.
We need to resurrect Spock
have him beam down
and give us the logical answer
before the Alien High Council sends us to a frozen prison planet.
Good Morning America
Today is the day
we resurrect the ancient aliens
the ones who designed the stone monoliths
that clutter our planet like *Burma Shave ads for space travel.
Collector’s Magnets for freaks
from a far off galaxy
who will surely calculate the odds
of contracting the human infection
inoculating their crews
for a close encounter of a shitty kind.
Good Morning America
we are being consumed by
a malfunction in the earth’s atmosphere
we are bankrupt OCD and arrogant
and our time is running out.
Pardon me Mr. Speaker
excuse my partisan ass
but we were wondering
when the high and mighty on capital hill
will get off their collective agendas
Because we are tired of swallowing
your terms of engagement
and we’re not going to finance them, anymore.
* Burma-Shave was an American brand of brushless shaving cream, famous for its advertising gimmick of posting humorous rhyming poems on small sequential highway roadside signs.
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