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some-tin-can-tan-man playing in the sand with paper tigers a bear with many tentacles red everywhere in the skies clouds streaming down hispeed downsload online power lines pavement-red trees ripe for slicing and many motored mobiles moving i see these incessant seas of disease in roving throes of twos and threes drunken eyes of manned machines madness is sporadic maelstroms tornadic hail storms whispering lightning peals of eclectic ills the meek willed and weak be killed the party's all in pink its all happening its happening now this Eden scene reality happy masses spending spree breeds palmistry lost honesty espirit de corps in manistry the trenchmouth of a diarrhetic mind the media of waste and waists culture crowd cry crass and proud there is nothing reprobate WE are all there is to hate we've lost our sense in satin sets of scents and sins in suddenness now is the beginning of then love is the beginning of fears time is the beginning of when hate is the start of smears i am forever tears and woodwind promises singing softly sighing what seaweed sees screaming as seaweed streams strings of steaming arty-choked minds and children dreaming brain washed carbon cycles power washed spirochetes imminent demise by sunrise Media theatrics of medium minds like mediums find gallows galvanizing Gallup Polls as Mesmer rising truth is news but the news aint truth and that aint news but it is the truth rude uncouth pursueth youth to chase the shadows backward progressive eye see no wrong shame is yet a choice silence none let us sing but only in one voice our world's a stage of gilded age a rounded cage of ageless rage and HIStory is a sexist word a reckless neckless Texas word afraid of path ahead of us afraid of rain bloodstained with rust afraid of pain for there is gain enflamed estranged defamed with trust be shamed be shamed be shamed we must i'll work me up till i explode a goldenrod that never glowed a farmer whom has never sowed i'll toe a line hence never toed in dirt the truth is never soiled in earth its known and never spoiled in trees with leaves it breathes unseen the breezes that will never leave us if Jesus pleases may it seize us all consuming never leave us please O God may it never leave us and only then can it free us
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