fiddleback (2018)

Accolades, gold brocades,

Claw in claw with pinochet

Silver spoons records expunged

Ocean ate the trillions plunged

Savings loan, hinkley, chapman,

Silverado, kissinger fatman,

Ollie north, murky mark felt

Poindexter, secord, pardons for pelts

Hussein his proxy, gas so foxy,

Bait switch carpet bombed iraqis

Friends in low places this fiddleback knows

Arbusto to macondo, libyan crude flows

Up waterspout, down came the sun

Spiderhole war criminal vacation 

 

"hooraw hooray"

2018 

The itsy-bitsy spider 

     climbed up the water spout

Down came the rain 

      and washed the spider out

Out came the sun, and  

        dried up all the rain

And the itsy-bitsy spider  

     climbed up the spout again  

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A budget black blots 

    Sun from bottomless sky 

Iron dome smog 

  An Eye for eye for eye 

Big beauty bill

   Don mask the ovens master

A slice of pie flag-draped 

    Raped earth all the faster 

fat off the land, 

   Oldest story of the book

Osage or cherokee, gook or kirkuk

    You get a cut just a taste

Keep safely there's my bank

     If bandits prowl just yell

I'll be watching swimming hole

      A tank a yank an ever-gun-filled role 

This land was yer land

     So was Manhattan

From the new well spurting 

    To the stockyard churching

This park was tree-full 

     The river rushing

Bison salmon the quick-stop breathing

    

Now golf course nodding 

    The aquifers draining 

The coal train spilling a sky on children 

The forever toxin

    Elect your master

The robot taxi get fascism here faster