With Apologies to Poe

the health care debate is making us weary
It's incessant drone is getting dreary
while the political hacks try and settle the score
the nation nodded it was nearly napping
suddenly there came a crapping
a smell as if a diaper was unwrapping
unwrapping on the chamber floor
tis merely a Republican we muttered
crapping on our chamber floor
only this and nothing more

ah distinctly now we remember
back in that bleakest of December
when each and every single member
took a crap upon the floor
eagerly we thought well tomorrow
vainly how we hid our sorrow
from our hopes we had to borrow
anything to help squelch the sorrow
for that rare and radiant beauty
whom the angels called before
Universal Health Care
Nameless now and forever more
Quoth the Senate Nevermore

Echolalia

echolalia:
Psychiatry: the tendency to repeat mechanically words just spoken by another person: can occur in cases of brain damage, mental retardation, and schizophrenia

Yep, there is a word for that so next time you hear a tea bagger or an idiotic conservative republican speak you now know the clinical definition of their disorder. Feel free to use it in a sentence like:

"Hey buddy, I see you still suffer from echolalia why don't you go and rent some original thoughts."or "Your echolalia is really annoying plus you smell bad have you showered lately." or... Well you get my drift have fun and enjoy this most useful of words. I know I will.

the art of repetition
is how they get things done
the simple minded idiots
don't know when they are one

you can see them proudly
just turn on your TV
they are the moronic idiots
that live amongst you and me

they might be your neighbor
or the guy just down the street
they are simply just repeating
Rush Limbaugh's reddest meat

the problem with these people
what makes them who they are
is the lack of cogitation
they really lower the bar

Democrats have screwed the pooch

Obama is in a world of hurt the democrats have screwed the pooch and you have to wonder is this by design? Have the corporate powers taken over this completely, between Obama's failures and the recent SCOTUS ruling I see no hope for this country and I mean no hope. It is all down hill from here. I may have to dust off my copy of 1984 this shit seems Orwellian. We are sliding towards the abyss, and nothing can stop this rapid descent. This article is a must read and pretty much explains the current state of affairs in this country and the debacle that is the executive branch. I so want to think that Obama miscalculated that he will rise to the occasion become the champion for the little guy. There is not one shred of evidence to support this assertion in fact quite the contrary he has abandoned the very people who got him elected. This ship can not be steered we are rudderless and quickly approaching the shoals of benighted misfortune. Everyone better don a life vest we are gonna need it.

consequences most grave

once I was happy
now I am sad
this country is sinking
too fucking bad

corporations are people
how can that be
they are evil institutions
that rape all they see

where is the outrage
we went from bad to worse
an unholy alliance
this corporate curse

it is all ideological
straight down the line
half of these judges
were born with no spine

now thanks to Bush
this court will misbehave
with the end result
consequences most grave

Oh so ripe

I have often wondered
why animals eat their young
but is this any different
than what the democrats have done

they just lost a lion
their greatest liberal figurehead
then they lose his Senate seat
this party is fucking dead

we may want to accuse Obama
certainly he will shoulder blame
what actually did just happen
is it the nature of the game

one thing that is a given
was the reaction on Wall Street
that pack of ravenous jackals
smelled profitable new red meat

this can't bode well for the future
what's the next thing down the pipe
this party's ready to be plundered
it's nice and juicy and oh so ripe

Feed the Beast

should we continue to feed the beast
it's always hungry ready to feast

it's always scrounging rooting around
constantly reaping then chowing down

it's imperial pretensions will never cease
running amok it has slipped it's leash

we are dangerous and frankly quite scary
no wonder the world is constantly wary

why are we fighting two wars at once
this is so stupid must we be such a dunce

you don't always win with the biggest stick
but we always fight wars to show off our dick

nightmarish dream

now there's a reason
why the dems are blue
the repukes are laughing
as they turn the screw

just one year later
the tide has turned
are we this helpless
just made to be burned

look it is simple
a choice to be made
lesser of evils
man we been played

where are we heading
what dark alley this
bend over and take it
without even a kiss

Obama is flailing
we're all going down
if you dispute this
you ain't been around

this is not a new story
we all know the theme
there's nowhere to hide
it's a nightmarish dream

Palin

you have got
to love Palin
all that cash
she's a balein

it simply proves
this country's ailin
if she's elected
we'd all be failin

can't you hear them
they are a wailin
all that love
for Sarah Palin

yes we try
you hear us railin
don't dear God
vote for Palin

they won't listen
the heights their scalin
and it's our coffin
they'll soon be nailin

MLK

let us take this day to ponder
and reflect upon what we see
the status of M.L. King's vision
the current state of inequality

we can say without reservation
that strides have certainly been made
but his dream is far from perfected
how long must this game be played

Jim Crow may be dead and buried
but his legacy still lives and is strong
it's notions of division and injustice
just keep right on rolling along

they say with the election of Obama
that we are now a Post-Racial Society
if that ain't a crock of horse shit
just another lie in the Land of the Free

I wonder what King would be thinking
is this the future for which he planned
or by now would he be disillusioned
and want to bury his head in the sand

that is just a rhetorical question
there was no giving up in this man
wherever he witnessed injustice
not away from but towards it he ran

The Horror The Horror

When you see a picture of this magnitude and then you hear or read about the things Rush Limbaugh is saying you realize one thing this world is fucking crazy. And in the back of my mind I keep hearing Marlon Brando from Apocalypse Now saying over and over again "The Horror, The Horror".