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By Misti Date: 2004 May 16 Comment on this Work [[2004.05.16.15.31.26158]] |
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Amy Goodman is your dream woman ...smart, politically savvy, balls to the wall I don't think Amy Goodman cares about M.A.C. lipstick and Las Vegas probably isn't her vacation destination of choice you had to tell me who in the hell Dick Cheney is when you told me you were doing a show called "Deface the Nation" that parodies George Bush and right wing politics I was in told you I was a writer even though I don't watch the news or read the paper the death toll in Iraq doesn't interest me one dead human being is more than enough for me there was a protest in town across from Frontier your friend washed the tear gas from his eyes at your apartment I was working at Bra & Panties Land at the time I would have gone to the protest and gotten pissed and been arrested and everyone in my life would have hated me and I would have had to find a new job and no one would have cared about my rage my rage is the greatest thing I own and it is miniscule in the scheme of things I can't discuss politics because I don't know them I only know what waste is and corporate greed and hypocrisy and hatred and prejudice and ignorance wearing the white robe of Christianity stained with new blood everyday everything for the glory of God they are dead our soldiers, their soldiers their babies, their women their old people with no teeth but they are in a Better Place now singing with the angels hallelujah no more bombs no more Haliburton no more American flag whipping over their deserted streets imagine that what a party, dude i think up a collage an American man safe and snug inside his American house with his computer and surround sound and video games and big screen TV and stereo and cd burner and cell phone that plays the latest Justin Timberlake or "American Idol" hit yes, he is inside there with everything he needs and outside there is a plague of locusts and outside there are lesbian couples trying to say I Do over the roar of bulldozers trampling things down to make way for more American houses that will keep more Americans safe and snug especially if they are white and Right and rich and heterosexual there are buildings and churches being bombed God is a preschooler, suddenly mad because Mommy and Daddy dropped him off at seven and won't pick him up until six so he is fixing the situation by stepping on the Lego and Lincoln log villages so carefully constructed by his pacifier sucking peers God is an angry little boy wreaking havoc on the little classroom world that smells of Windex and cheap paint but God will be better after naptime and he will say Sorry and pass out the snacks i think of this and know i will never be able to pull it off a political pop art collage that would make you proud there aren't enough magazines there isn't enough glue there aren't enough ways to tell you that i am powerless and i am poor and what educated rich white men with booming voices do to this world matters little in my day to day life of hand to mouth living giving cocktail waitresses 50% tips 'cause God knows I'll see them again yes, i really don't amount to very much at all which is why i hid from the Census people in 2000 but despite all of this if you want me you know i am so yours. |