Tribute To Frank Zappa
The Old Zappa song
"More trouble every day"
plays on in my head
every time I turn on the news
and see more trouble every day
as Frank Zappa noted so many years ago
"no one can delay
the trouble coming every day"
Frank Zappa died too soon
before the horrors of the Trump era
that he would have foreseen
if he had lived on
he was truly a prophet
crying in the wildness
while making money
as" an over night sensation"
as he saw the "slime
oozing out of the TV sets"
he proclaimed that we will do what we are told
for the rights to us have been sold
And Jesus too
has been sold
to the highest bidder
nothing but a business deal
in America
the land of the constant deal
where everything and everybody
is nothing but a commodity
to the masters of the universe
and so I turn off the TV
and realize that as Zappa
once sang so many years ago
"the torture never ends"
"the torture never ends"
Copyright © Jake Aller | Year Posted 2020
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