Revolution Shmevolution

   (inspired by S.L. Weisend)

The revolution will not be televised at all,

(nor will it even\r taken place)

not even on PBS, where Boomers relive

the pasts they wished they had experienced/

The revolution almost happened

but it cut too deeply into party time

and Disco was more fun than protest songs

and the Beatles broke up anyway.

(Who could dance to Sgt. Pepper?)

Most people graduated and looked for work

even without mountains of crushing debt

like their children and children’s children have.

No one misses the revolution

Dennis Hopper went on to vote for W.

Everyone watches reality television,

voyeurism of celebrities and pseudo singer/dancers.

In Andy Warhol’s American

everyone had 15 minutes of fame.

In today’s America

Everyone has a diagnosis.

Revolution sounds communist anyhow,

or at least like Democrats and pinkos,

and everyone wants their slice

of the American Pie before illegals

or the Federal government takes it.

Entitlements are no good, but

some people want theirs all the same.

There won’t be a revolutions

but plenty of time for high desert standoffs

with flags waving and microphones

flanking the AK-47s

which are essential to freedom

so long as the right people have them

and those who want social justice

better duck before it hits the fan.

The world does not end with a bang

But with whimpering phone calls

To talk show radio hosts before

They cut to commercials

For ginseng, gold coins, and

Rabid political attack ads

Droned into ears in

crescendos of cacophony

until it seems true enough

Mistah Kurtz- he still dead!