A City is drowning in swamps, snakes and despair,
hope is franchised to cronies with suspect bids,
the media proclaims when everyone is to blame
nobody is at fault



2



Portland headline reads:
"Occupying Army in New Orleans"
and they mean it as a compliment,
Bush gang waited till anarchy ruled,
didn't want soldiers going in as do-gooders
throwing old black Joe a lifesaver.

Instead they came as routers of insurgency.

Polls proclaim 9 in 10 of white America
say race had nothing to do with it
but if you can't beat the colored in Baghdad
go smash 'em in Louisiana.



3



Bush walking on water
in the Big Easy river of shit
won't impress the locals,
unless his mother drowned.

Cheap carny tricks aren't earning forgiveness
on this Yom Kippur,
cause when the saints come marching in
Dubya ain't being in that number.



4



100 billion bucks rebuilding Iraq,
another 100 billion for Big Easy,
abolish inheritance tax,
and any tax on the rich,
borrow bread from China,
give Halliburton its fair share
smash gay marriages and abortion -

that's Dubya's Ownership Society,
he owns us.



5



Barbara Bush figures its fine
for poor people to be living on stadium cots
because its probably an improvement.

Someone off camera
told Cheney to go "fuck himself"
but Dick was too busy looking serious.

On some glorious day
Dubya will again be sunning his ass
on Trent Lott's porch.

Oh, where is Jim Garrison
now when we really need him?



6



Why are we on this journey?
Who picked the Captain?
Why is Moby Dick smiling?

© 2005 - Stew Albert