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By misti Date: 2003 Aug 23 Comment on this Work [[2003.08.23.02.25.4848]] |
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somewhere in the middle of america steel trap minds think by rote in white and black and there are no rainbow spray paint scrawls of dissent and there are no day glo orange and yellow and pink protests everyone drinks their milk everyone is polite but firm with telemarketers calling in the middle of meatloaf and asparagus Please Bless Us And Keep Us Safe Please Don't Let Anything Change Please Destroy The Wilderness Make It Civil Give Us Our Malls We Don't Want Mahler Mozart, Maybe, But Definitely Not Mahler Keep Your Dalis and Warhols Give Us This Day Our Daily Incentives Fat Paychecks And Benefits Including Dental And A Grand Cherokee And A Four-Bedroom Adobe In The Middle Of The Best Mountain Trails Give Us Our Puerto Vallarta Vacations Our Time Shares In Colorado Our Football Games On Friday Nights Chilling To The Thrilling To The Star Spangled Banner Played With Clumsy Grace By The High School Band We Demand Our Freedom Freedom To Receive Stellar Service At Wal-Mart And Starbucks Freedom To Listen To Michael Bolton On The Radio With No Curse Words Or Sexual Innuendos During Commercials Freedom To Keep The All Nude Cabarets Outside Our City Limits Freedom From The Eyesores Of Homeless Alcoholics And Pawn Shops On Every Corner give us a quiet glittering refuge a corporate candyland with no swamps or gay ice cream socials give us the bible easily translated but not too familiar give us a dog in the backyard and no coyotes on the other side of the fence give us a baby and free daycare because we deserve it give us our AARP membership with no hassle give us our castle and surround the moat with all the president's men somewhere in the middle of america i can hear a hearty amen. |