Endless Movie

Watching the TV coverage
Of the great government shut down 
Of 2018-2019 

I am reminded of a movie
As I fall asleep
Listening to the TV
 
Blather on and on
About what it all means
 
Mr. Natural pops up
And screams
 
"It don’t mean s….

“Dude, the endless movie
Is about to begin”!
 
A middle-aged white man
Down on his proverbial luck
Just been fired
 
Replaced by a foreign worker
Or a robot
 
Or just fired
Because he was no longer
Deemed useful
To the masters of the universe
 
If he was lucky
He'd  be given a watch
And an IOU worthless pension
 
And the man wanders into a restaurant
Pulls out a gun
 
Eats his breakfast
After the official breakfast hour
 
Puts on a Pepe the green frog mask
Drops acid, Snorts speed
Drinks a shot of booze
And coffee smokes a joint

Snorts cocaine for good measure
and smokes a cigarette

And walks outside
 steals a bus at gun point
Filled with passengers
 
He tells them
They are hostages
 
And he puts on his vest
With the dead man switch
Next to the bomb
 
He announces
Via tweet
 
He is going to take the bus
To the proverbial pot of gold
 
Hidden deep in a cave
And when he got there
 
He would release the hostages
And disappear into the mine
And never be found again
 
And as the bus careens around the mountain
At 100 miles an hour
The dude sprouts out
 
Conspiracy after conspiracy theory
About Obama the Muslim communist
 
secret gay working with George Soros
the Jewish money people
in league with the shapeshifting lizards
 
and Mueller is one of them
they are all after him
because he knows the deal
 
And the passengers are transfixed
Half hoping, he would make it
Half hoping, he would be blown away
 
And as the bus careens out of control
With the wheels falling off
 
And the cliff looming ahead
You realize we are all doomed
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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