Hey Singer

Sing a song that's amazing, make me laugh make me cry

A song that makes me wonder why

Sing a song that's amazing

A song that saves the world and brings a brighter day

A song that makes me say it's gonna be okay

A song that forgives the blind, broken things we do

A song that reboots the selfish things i did to you

Sing a song that's amazing, make me laugh make me cry

A song that makes me wonder why

Sing a song that's amazing

A song about a world where no one needs to steal

And no one's afraid to shout out what we feel

A song that fixes the wounds that never heal

And no one posts videos of a murdered baby seal

Sing a song that's amazing, make me laugh make me cry

A song that makes me wonder why

Sing a song that's amazing

Where the voices of the few don't drown the many

with perfect contraception that don't cost a penny

A song of rebirth for this humyn catastrophe

A song that brings my sweetie, my sweetie back to me

A song that fills our lives with all we'll need

A song that ends all the alienation and greed

A song that makes it sweet for silly lovers to breed

A song that makes our species the galaxy's loving seed

Sing a song that's amazing, make me laugh make me cry

A song that makes me wonder why

Sing a song that's amazing

Waymo Driver

When i was a youth i read a book to learn the color of my parachute

I took the quiz, afraid of life in a suit

I tallied my score

Something fun, i implore

The book said, here's your life ahead

You're gonna be a Waymo driver

My guidance counselor said here's your aptitude test

You're strangely different from the rest

We found your niche, not poor not rich

Then she said here's your life ahead

You'll be a Waymo driver

Dog catcher at the South Pole

Firefighter in Atlantis

Grief counselor in Heaven

Where's my vocational bliss

I went to a job fair

The reps were so cheery

But they got glassy eyes when i offered this query

Why don't i see some job for me

Why do i dread this life ahead

Give a honk and a wave, and some sympathy save for the Waymo driver

Abortion Song

Here's a song, here's a song, here's a song i wrote

The abortion song, the abortion song, men don't get a vote

It's got a dingy and a dugout and other things that float

The abortion song, the abortion song, men don't get a vote

The ovary-free stick your two cents in your throat

The abortion song, the abortion song, men don't get a vote

Here's my abortion thought, my heartfelt testimony

A man legislating abortion, is like a pony up a tree

A thousand rapes a day in the town of Terre Haute

The abortion song, the abortion song, men don't get a vote

For patriarchal poison we need an antidote

The abortion song, the abortion song, men don't get a vote

If you need a male opinion, go interview a goat

The abortion song, the abortion song, men don't get a vote

I've never had an abortion and i never ever will

I've never worn the patch and never taken the pill

If you want self-serving shite, ask a man for a quote

The abortion song, the abortion song, men don't get a vote

Ernestine rose was a freedom fighter of note

The abortion song, the abortion song, men don't get a vote

Let's make patriarchy an historical footnote

The abortion song, the abortion song, men don't get a vote

Back-alley abortions, too high a price to pay

100 wimyn dead every single day

All the womyn-haters it 's time to demote

The abortion song, the abortion song, men don't get a vote

If you seek some sense, see what RBG wrote

The abortion song, the abortion song, men don't get a vote

Here's a song, here's a song, here's a song i wrote

The abortion song, the abortion song, men don't get a vote

Mississippi Freeway

Medgar's knocking on the door, been gone so long

Set the table, we're gonna sing a song

On the Mississippi freeway

Mississippi free

Mississippi freeway, comin' home to me

Fannie's limping home but she's standing proud

Her voice is ringing so clear and loud

On the Mississippi freeway

Mississippi free

Mississippi freeway, comin' home to me

Leontyne and ida laughing in the den

Happy days, here they are again

Freeways coming from sea to shining sea

Freeways for you, you and me

Richard's coming home, been in Mexico and France

Everybody gather round, we're gonna sing and dance

Mississippi freeway

Mississippi free

Mississippi freeway, comin' home to me

The Jailing Wall

Can anyone please poke a hole in this argument?

Immigration.

Trump's central platform.

Let's assume that immigration is a problem...even though i've not heard any convincing argument to that effect. But for the sake of discussion, let's assume it IS a problem.

If so, trump could end it within a week.

Start with the question, why do undocumented migrants come here? Because we financially incentivize them to do so. They know they can make HUGE amounts of money here, with or without work papers.

So THEY did not create the problem, yes? We did. And to end this, all trump would have to do is get a law passed that makes it illegal for anyone without proper documentation to earn money in the U.S. Then make the penalty for breaking that law so off-the-charts severe, that NO employer, public or private, would dare break it.

Bingo, done. Problem 100% solved, in about a week. Then trump could move on to real problems.

But to pull back this curtain would be to admit our hypocrisy. We WANT illegals here, to do the work we don't want to do. Since slavery's not legal anymore, we want them here as a powerless and exploitable work force.

"Dangerous" immigrants, by the way, including and especially illegals, are more law-abiding than natural citizens.

Donald knows all this. Does his insistence on this phantom problem allow him to create a money train, involving the incarceration of illegals? 90% of all detainees are not kept in INS facilities, but in private, for-profit prisons. Do you imagine that that's a gravy train without kickbacks? Do you imagine someone's not making fortunes off unimaginable suffering?

Have you ever heard of the fallacy of attacking the branches of a problem, while ignoring the roots? That's all that this wall nonsense ever was.

Can anyone poke a hole in this?

Anyone?

Cage

Don't free me from the cage, i'll hallow your holy temple, don't free me

Don't free me from the cage, i'll exalt you eternally, don't free me

Don't free me from the cage, i'll ignite your phoenix, don't free me

Don't free me from the cage, i'll banish the pretenders, don't free me

Show your shadows the light

Make our hell alright

See your garden grow

Feel your waters flow

Don't free me from the cage, i'll lay waste your walls, don't free me

Don't free me from the cage, i'll extinguish your ego, don't free me

Don't free me from the cage, i'll make you a porn star, don't free me

Don't free me from the cage, i'll rewrite your DNA, don't free me

Show your shadows the light

Make our hell alright

See your garden grow

Feel your waters flow

trump v. kamala

As America slumps into trump 2.0, we're asked to believe that this time he won the popular vote!

In my half-century, i've never had such a hard time believing any such result could be possible.

When trump appeared again as a candidate, i gave him no chance of winning his party's nomination. As ducks go, he seemed deceased-beyond-doubt. He'd lost the previous election by seven million - a drubbing of devastating proportion.

Even if he did well in the primaries, it didn't seem possible the republicans would allow themselves to be represented by an historically-divisive candidate who needed to swing more than three million votes to his side. Trump's personality and policies are so polarizing, the idea of anyone changing their mind about him seems...beyond dubious.

In other words, "undecideds" and trump seem mutually exclusive.

On top of that, what were trump's main accomplishments in the four years since losing to biden? What things would be foremost in people's minds? He incited a riot, and became a convicted felon.

As you might expect, riots and felons poll EXTREMELY low among conservatives. I suspect that most of us know at least one conservative (especially veterans or police) who voted for trump in 2020, but refused to ever do so again. So beyond the need to sway three million who had voted against him, he had also lost a percentage of his own base. Therefore my confusion was at its peak NOT after the general election, but the primaries. It just felt inconceivable that the republicans would allow this to happen, unless they knew something we all didn't.

There was one factor working in trump's favor. In the past four years, eighteen states enacted voter suppression laws targeting minorities. So any republican candidate was going to do better. But over three million votes? No.

Due to trump's assault on wimyn's rights AND the presence of a female rival, it was a bedrock certainty that he would lose the female vote.

Due to the racist label around his neck AND the presence of a rival of color, it was a bedrock certainty that he would lose the black vote.

We're asked to believe that hispanics went his way? For them, the number one image associated with trump is brown children crying in cages.

We're asked to believe that RFK supporters jumped to trump? I can believe some democrats lost faith in biden/harris. But to propose that any liberal could love their preferred candidate enough to accept donald as an eleventh-hour alternative? Simply not credible.

Trump's numbers went up among the very young? This is the most troubling allegation - partly because i can confirm the possibility. I know one person voting in their first election, whom i'd call smart and caring...yet he DID vote for trump. One would think the young would be the MOST immune to trump's old, white fear/hate rhetoric...

Did America's racist/sexist demons squeak out one last gasp? That seems a shaky proposition, because we've already elected a president of color, and a female president.

They say that with every new election, you have to throw the previous results out. Trump lost in 2020 because of covid, which wasn't hanging around his neck this time? Under normal circumstances, that might be true. But again...historically-divisive.

There is an unscientific flavor to this analysis. But i think it's worth sharing, because my circle of association is wide. I have a blue collar job, but also walk in the white-collar world, due to artistic and family connections.

For the first time in my life, this just doesn't feel credible.