To Get That Money
to get that money
make that money
steal that money
go to jail.
to get that jewelry
make that money
steal that jewelry
go to jail
banker man,
understand
steal that money
go to jail.
wallstreet man
understand,
steal that money
go to jail.
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Digging The Garden
If you're looking for the Garden of Eden
Looking for Divine Inspiration
Seek and you shall find
Savagery so refined
Oxygen poor water and mud
Turned decay into coal's life blood
A burial process of rise and fall
Made Eden so geological
Eden squeezed and cooked
Did trap solar power long overlooked
Eden tucked away just for luck
Until Good Christians dug it up
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Baby Bird
I helped a baby bird live,
I found him on the ground,
Almost dead,
Most profound.
He grew to be a fledgling,
The most dangerous time of all,
He drowned in a pool of water,
I never heard him call.
The death was more cathartic
Than any play I've read,
More religious than any sermon I've heard,
Because he was real, he tried so hard,
And he was just a baby bird.
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Bouncing Off the Mirror
what you see
is made up of
what you can't see
The coarse, the fine
reduced to time.
as we move forward
we scatter each photon from its electron shell
Till we bounce off some nuclear mirror
in some personal hell.
then we reverse; re- gather we re-radiate,
so never dread, it's never too late,
bouncing off the mirror is such a sight
as we return to the source of the light.
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1861
On Good Friday,1861,
Fort Sumter was the first decision done,
Soon disintegration of father, brother and son,
Lincoln made his choice and then,
Down went more than 600 thousand men.
On Good Friday 1865,
Hell spawned a dream Lincoln would tell,
He dreamt of sailing to an unknown horizon,
Four years to the day, having freed the slave,
Lincoln was shot, his destination- the grave.
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It's Dark Out There
So what did you expect?
It's dark out there,
And cold.
Outer space is very, very cold.
Suns are good for light,
But they blow up,
Or implode.
It's dark out there,
So man worked with fire,
Then electricity,
But critics call their methods of creating light evil.
Folks don't like monopolies,
Even making light has dark tendencies
Moralistically,
But what are you going to do,
People are scared of the dark.
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I Feel Like Billy the Kid
I feel like Billy the Kid,
I broke the law, but can't remember what I did,
So I'm hiding in a hole in the wall,
There's so many laws,
I can't remember them all.
And there's a lawman on my trail,
He's going to have to kill me,
Cos I ain't going to jail,
Tell my Mama, I won't be coming home,
When you lay low, you got to lay low alone.
And I feel like Billy the Kid,
I broke the law, but can't remember what I did.
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Ecopatriots
Ecopatriots paying attention,
Ecoes looking for some change in dynamics,
With earnest appeals in one minute spots,
Just chock full of dramatics.
The race is on so on with the insults,
Ecopatriots looking for results,
Nobody's too big for the job,
Any fool can rob.
Among dreadful conditions we look for the gaff,
Ecopatriots are good for a laugh,
Ecopatriots trying to make a sale,
Closing the deal before going to jail.
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The NEWS
I like to listen to the news,
Every morning when I drive,
I believe the news stands for
N-ot E-veryone W-ill S-urvive.
To write a news story, answer who, what, where, how,
You must leave your listener in a state of wow,
Then add a little when and why,
And juice it up with a subtle lie.
Most of the facts no one gets right,
The pints of blood lost last night,
Aim for the groin, not the heart,
Most of the listeners aren't that smart.
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Delay, Deny and hope they Die
Dedicated to Buddy the Vet.
VA hospital,
Tough situation,
Soldiers shot up
Veterans Administration.
What to do,
So many issues,
So many wounds,
So many tissues.
It cost a lot of cash,
To maintain a battle cry,
Just beyond MASH,
It's delay, deny and hope they die.
A hidden agenda
Awaits us all,
These were our finest,
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