A few apcalyptic thoughts on Independence Day:

NO CHICKEN

bird flu and aids
how's a poor boy going to eat
with no chicken
make love
when his baby is dying?

too much rich
too much poor
nobody knows how to
live
anymore

too much rich
destroying our world

too much poor
running from destruction

maybe you didn't notice
crossing rivers
filling up backroads
city streets
running borders
looking for a way to live

the rich
heating up oceans
steaming up the atmosphere
storming the southern hemisphere

genocide by hurricane
drought
tsunami

burning and drowning
starving

and have you noticed all the
war?

people not knowing
how to live
anymore

rich people in the bomb
business
making
selling
dropping

poor people dying and hiding
biting bullets
shooting back when
we can

too much crime to trust
anymore

too much war in the street
to love thy neighbor
anymore

blank cheques for killing
nothing spent to heal or teach

too much israel
too much washington dc

too much christian
armageddon dreaming

too much of the new
thing name of
asymetrical
warfare

here it is:
mass murder by the rich
suicide bombing by the poor
torture at guantanamo
hunger strike
hang yourself

says rummy
bushy
rover
chaney
condi:
geneva conventions
do not apply
to asymetrical warfare

super court says maybe
they do

poor folks repeat after
bin laden:
somos todos
commandante
marcos

translation:
we are all al-queda
who
can't see a future
anymore
for our girls and boys

too much religion
preaching hate

too much USA
(happy birthday)
spreading fear

white collar stealing
gone insane

jacking
dealing in the street
same old game

here we come around
the corner with our loot

ice caps melting
seas uprising
disease in the streams
in the air we breathing

po' middle class
trying to climb up
not be like us
down here

trying not to
fall
down here

where we're running
from too much bullets
too much rich

ice caps melting
seas uprising
can't see a future
girls and boys dying
and no damn chicken.