Fuck Mainstream America

dedicated to Rage Against The Machine

I'm sick,
soul-sick,
tired,
"cold and bony tired;" - REM
my mind is full of scorpions
and it seems no one can minister to this mind diseased;
I don't feel right
walking on the street,
drinking coffee by the mind-stunting TV,
or often even reading
or off in my dreams.

But fuck it,
"fuck it," I say,
I'm not gonna break,
and I'm not going away;
I'm not for sale
and I ain't gonna pray;

Today's God is the corporate aristocrats,
their "house on the hill" bourgeious allies,
and the ever-ready F.B.I.,
all selling All-American lies
(dressed up with rosaries, zodiac signs
or vapid portraits of Jesus Christ)

And soon they'll all pass away
victims to a revolution Far beyond my sway;
I'm just putting literary icing on the cake
but I do it gladly
because I'm full of rage and hate
for all who long to be a higher caste
for all the Americans who greedily buy
the posh, materialist neo-fascist lie:
People who live in trailers
support politicians controlled by country club men,
and people who live in 3rd world huts
and ransack shacks unwillingly support all of them
(held back by British, Israeli, and American weapons of steel
and I grew up amid it all,
thinking the news meant something real,
hearing the MTV, rock'n roll call,
thinking it was more than veneer

And it isn't:
it isn't, you hear?
It's all a fucking game:
P. Diddy, Jay-Z, and that Idol "Clay"
are all the same:
a bunch of lame mouth-pieces,
the first two selling out their very race,
with "gangsta" uncle tom smiles on their face.

I've done more artistically
than a billion dollar's worth of them,
and I'm not even free
to walk the streets and do my thing;
I've gotta watch out for thugs
inspired by the latest B action flick,
and for American cops
who are wired like gestapo pigs:
I see through your "bourgeious" words and wigs:
the centuries changed but it's all the same,
and we've got one last chance:
trust me, it ain't NO game

and then this globle will flame up
and do one last dance:
consuming the Taliban, The Kremlin, and the CIA,
and all those who to Allah, Jesus and Brahma pray,
killing every Reagan voting
preacher worshipping, gun-toting American;

Well, at least it's not all bad.
you hear me, there's a message with this rant:
Don't try to walk on imperialist water:
!!!I guarantee you can't!!!