Backs

Shall we set out across the sea of faces?
In search of more and more applause?
Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?
Shall we get into fights?
Leave the lights on?
Drop bombs?
Do tours of the east?
Contract diseases?
Bury bones?
Break up homes?
Send flowers by phone?
Take to drink?
Go to shrinks?
Give up meat?
Rarely sleep?
Keep people as pets?
Train dogs?
Race rats?
Fill the attic with cash?
Bury treasure?
Store up leisure?
But never relax at all!

John's Dilemna

The men of the mind
Dangerous to your code
adjudicator of illusions

Your requiem collective assimilation
Hell, apogee of moral apathy
product of your illusion

We do not need you
Cry now this is not what I wanted
The decision has been taken

This is what you fought for
This is what you dreamed of
This is what you wished for
Independence, reason, happiness
Sacrificed on the alter to
Unity, faith, self denial

Mediator of thought and appetite
Needful of many, fearful of one
Deprived the world of mans mind

Discovery

We the deceivers of men and dream

Run about as the others scream

The frightful reign in plenty

Pondering the gates of time and space

Stolen soldier hand discovers rhythm of time

Creator of improbability, author of dogmatic beliefs

Rapid decay, grey leads to greyless and decay

Sojourner of reality, discoverer of fate

Time to defend, defend with haste

No More Beacon

The shining beacon on a hill

Blood and black stained hundred dollar bill

Hopes and dreams of a generation

Fought for freedom and embraced abdication

Six hundred thousand standing at the gate

The ultimate price paid to separate

Once a union proud and grateful

Now a corporation, fraudulent and hateful

Money wolf deceiver salivates and sinks in claw

Stolen printing press of green, now master of law

Wolfs and oligarchs aspire to potentates

In caves secret agendas expand and proliferate

Peace is war and imperialism preached

Lizard tongue on podium recites keynote speech

Look, the voting sheep throng and congregate

Mass ignorance cultivates, despotism accelerates

Civics and enlightened thought, once a citizen's goal

Now Bachelorette, celebrity gossip and the super bowl

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . .

it expects what never was and never will be”