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Nov 07 '04 (Updated Nov 09 '04)    Write an essay on this topic.


The Bottom Line Sometimes, when someone you care about really messes up, you have to back away and let them get it together.

My America is Old Dirty Bastard and Thomas Merton.
It is outlaw country and gangster rap.
My America is not afraid of the devil.
We don't want your guns and won't give you our gays.
We volunteer, donate and educate.
We object to the war while your sons die there.
We dislike your leaders' cynicism,
We hear them laughing at you.
Move along, herd, from the polls to the slaughterhouse.
Shall we sing while we walk?

You shop at Wal-mart
we see what it does
to your towns and your jobs.
Soon you will all work there
with no health insurance.
Somewhere in America a factory is closing
so you can save eleven cents.
Maybe you work there?
Yin and Yang, baby, shall we sing now?

I believe your good natures are being perverted.
Thinking your leaders mean well.
They do not mean well.
You believe by nature we are perverted
and will someday burn in hell.
We aren't going to hell.

Who is your Jesus today, America?
The hippy or the tough guy?
Bringing apocalypse with a vengeance or
eternal life with a handful of daisies?
It will be easier for a camel to fit through
a needle's eye
then it will be for the world's wealthiest country
to float to heaven.

We are now killers without a cause.
I can look you in the eye and tell you
that you had better look at your soul.
The things you are doing are wrong.
Pray you don't accidentally end up
aching and hungry and innocent in Guantanamo.

Sing along with me,
you sad little fatties,
There are miles to go
and you are asleep.

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