yellah (1987)

Not so long ago yellow meant chicken shit, now
It’s a power color for china toothed execs, canary colored
Ties for banana republic tyrants driving bmws thru
Shuddering morning traffic to get to the golf course where chrome
Bumpered carts await while their children lap-up
Computer generated wet dreams while mom looks like
A million but only pays taxes on 60 thou
While looking like the cat who ate the fiscal coalmine canary
While toting the republic’s banner, their march
Is a synchronized goosestepping thru the flowers of people’s
Park as they once stuffed daisies in soldier’s
Rifles they now feed billions into defense industry trifles,
There’s a chilling draft to these diamond dimpled types
As they draft more efficient ways to avoid taxes
While drafting more efficient ways to imprison while
Drawing-n-quartering the heathen, they have
In fact trashed the mythic american dream by
Enforcing the urine test, spewing out neon radioactive
Clouds, forcing school children to kneel and salute
The cloth, promoting the red scare
And warning the tykes not to take their eyes off the pie

Soon the official color will be apple rot puce
And all will dress officially
While attending state-sanctioned executions and
Abortion clinic blockades, the new order has shed the
Pinstriped gangster suit and invoked the
Fashions of miami vice to cloak
Their savagery in pastels


Lawrence ks templin hall KU