Plug
Nickel
Richard
Martin
“And
then, there is the cost, estimated between 50 and 200
billion dollars, with the US already facing a 300 billion dollar
deficit.”
“If
the radiance of a thousand suns
were to burst at once into the sky
that would be like the splendor of the mighty one
I am become death
the shatterer of worlds.” (Bhagavad-Gita)
Citizens
of the world
I have a proposal
For you.
A clock is required
To warm you
To my notion.
You may count
To 60 with the aid
Of Mark Twain’s river.
Let’s start with a minute
Of your time
On this planet
Of laundry
And invisible polygons.
TICK
TOCK
TICK TOCK
Let
this precious minute
Pass
Then say:
30 MILLION BUCKS FOR DEATH!
Very good.
Let another go by
TICK
TOCK
TICK TOCK
Fly
by
With golden wings
Repeat:
30 MILLION BUCKS FOR DEATH!
Isn’t it stupid?
Consider the nature of the body:
The perfect capacity
It has
To croak at will.
Repeat:
30 MILLION BUCKS FOR DEATH!
The question of a dime
A plug nickel
To support objects
Whose SOUL-LESS purpose
(Despite the
PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH
SHOOT FIRST
Slogans)
Is to advance
The cause of planetary croaking
On a massive scale
Repeat:
30 MILLION BUCKS FOR DEATH!
ONE
MISSISSIPPI
TWO MISSISSIPPI
How
come citizens
We ignore solace
In the fact
In a mere 15 billion years
The tank of Sun
Reaches E
And good old Earth
With sagging breasts
Broken teeth
Plenty wise
Goes poof
Disappears
Or floats (maybe)
Like a happy snowball
In the knowledge
Its former citizens
Were pledged to natural
Death?
Repeat:
30 MILLION BUCKS FOR DEATH?
Do you suppose, citizens,
It is time to replace
Nationalistic ego boundaries
With the notion
Of a blue sphere
In a black void?
Could we use a second
Or two
To leap from the ladder
Of reptiles,
Declare by the saints
And sinners of neocortex
An end to 30 MILLION BUCKS
FOR WEAPONS PER MINUTE!
TICK
TOCK
ONE MISSISSIPPI
Change
the beat, citizens,
The beat of destruction,
Then funnel our croak bucks
Into a fund to support
A world party,
So we can hit the streets
And meadows
Hang out by the great rivers
With a jug
A joint
A kiss
And begin to dance
The next 15 billion years
Into existence. |
