Because Washington is Hollywood for Ugly People

there's nothing wrong with looking good

just go ask a kid from a Brookyln hood

accept reality or get stuck in mud

so what if it's got a hair trim?



american celebrity's all ajumble.

variety, pr. ol' high society.

what matters is policy,

but what people care about

is for all to see.

2004 before most folks was

grousin' bout war.

Studs Terkel said nominate Dennis Kucinich

and if you don't do that

then the Democratic Party is finished.

you only shop at a thrift shop

if you don't need a lift-off

because you're looking over from the cliff-top.



silence = death

violence = sex

scientific meth id

ego, superego

wherever we go, gotta plant a flag like Stratego



I’ll shoot a lightflare through your nightmare



information overload makes your head spin.

fred flintstone met a redskin and filled his sleeping bag with dead skin

because DC:flicks::ugly:pretty

yet DC reps can't rep their own city?

let the games begin

with bushifer anniston and her friends.



"this is now with Bill Moyers

first thingwe do is kill lawyers

not all viewers are skilled voyeurs

all kinds of folk need signs of hope

read between the lines of coke

we need media literacy immediately

to teach the kiddies plopped in front ofthe TV

to dispel the mystique

parents, watch with your seeds

and speak a critique

is there a laugh track?

product placement, then ads after that?

is violence the only graphic act?

yet sex jokes are constant.

how do advertisers influence content?

do plot lines defy common sense?

do couples always have the same spat?

who’s it aimed at?

it’s stealing kids from a candyshop

the war front’s antipropaganda and if

PBS shifts then they can’t be stopped

but that’s a liberal

willing to listen to fibs of glib feds

who will literally kill every kid in the world

it’s poetry

a moderate will hang you from a lowa tree

you’re current events actors

teach history backwards

start with today

you can get to yesterday afterwards



I’m the pastor of text

the last word is next

Tinkin has yet to master After Effects



sweet, isnit

I’m like a guy in the audience

but then u got to listen to it

then again

maybe I can’t be heard thru the din

at the openin

but you hear it the next day

when you go again with a friend



there’s something new under the sun

old folks now out number the young

and if the gap gets any larger

the world'll look like the work of Henry Darger

old men against stem cells will use them themselves

juice the youths, live to 112

Robert J Lifton deciphered the system for indoctrination

this is his listin: isolation, hunger, fatigue, stress;

fear/love relationships, unperceived threats;

violence, both physical and mental; objects: commerce, converts and teaching disciples

that’s the nuts and bolts of cults

we’re kept from being adults until the ultimate electromagnetic pulses

different from Moonies’ eunuchy communities in a bread and circus

bled of purpose til we’re dead and worthless



a royal rumble would have been an enjoyable jumble

Tony Blair should send his cronies where he’d fight himself, it’s only fair

you can play it safe and pray to save

so many jewels it’s Plato’s cave

if you don’t share they’ll raid your grave

makin' waves don’t raise your wage

sometimes rich folks behave like slaves

I met thinkin' Tinkin at the Full Moon Saloon

and while he was drinkin we watched the bull balloon



it’s good to see Tinkin simplify

every ho hopes her pimp’ll die

chimp up high is an empty vessel

like when we set a place for Elijah

but if one cuts off his head

it regrows on the Hydra

therefore to succeed

we need community

with you n me 1 an 1 is 3

now that’s some real deal pimp shit

for these limpdick pinpricks

you only win itfor a minute

until we instill kinship

incest drove that thin chick to skinflicks

watching her perform makes you complicit

it’s supply and demand

a line in the sand

friends are enemies

when it’s ‘better them than me’

a friend is family only after amnesty

you’re land. I’m sea. we make clay to build fantasy.