Rough Medley:  Brief Manifestos of Progressive Societal Disarray   (***Filler/Long***)

Stick to just drinking so you are better...
Stick to just drinking so you talk more...
Stick to just drinking so you get laid...
Stick to just drinking so you settle down...
Stick to just drinking so nothing goes wrong...
Stick to just drinking so you can connect...

Stick to just drinking so you can produce:

The need for more roads to be paved…
The need for more houses to be built…
The need for more mortgages to be drawn…
The need for more schools to be filled…
The need for more bullets to be shot…
The need for more missiles to soar…
The need for all other religions to be erased…
The need for your skin colour to escape
On the rocket over to the next planet
Of moral and economic progress…

Stick to just drinking, it all comes through...


“No, I think I’d rather shiver in awkward eternal dehydrated silence,
And be a shameful imposition to the conceited dramas of those around me...”



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The younger fashionable couples with their guaranteed routine of job and nutrition
Assemble in great number at the saturday afternoon furniture store parking lot,
Ceaselessly oblivious to the potential reality that within less than a second,
The laws of the universe could be upset by a fraction of a degree, thereby ending everything immediately.

The madman informs them of this.


- No no no! [one of them points out]
That’s only conceptual, that could never happen…
The fact that we were able to exist at all proves the formulas are in balance...


- Oh is that right? [the madman replies]
So all we have to do is want less and everything will all be better?



And so the madman decides to commence some singing:


You’re all prisoners
Watching shadows on the cavern wall!

Your god is your…

Your approved line of low-interest credit!
Your cutting-board harmony on the counter-top shine!
Your probiotic copyrights in the refrigerator!
Your energy-saver laundry load of ease!
Your weekend trip to the atm!
Your war machine economy!
Your ipod playlist soundtrack sidewalk!
Your computer screen window colour clean!
Your fluid free flow text of distanced love!

It’s time...

It’s time to get kicked out of class for rude behavior!
It’s time to get arrested for abstaining from the oil industry!
It’s time to starve through more hours out of the day!
It’s time to do hallucinogens again and suffer the glare!
It’s time to be impolite and unconcerned in front of the opposite sex!



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For the greater good of the children,
Work!  Work!  Work!

For the greater good of the children,
Change!  Change!  Change!


Buy less!  Do less!  Use less!  Be less!
Compost!  Recycle!  Rebuild smaller!
Lesser material!  Greater efficiency!
Do not travel!  Do not flip channels!
Forsake the country club!
Forsake the ski chalet!
Forsake superfluous religious holiday!
Sit in the dark after the sunset!
Take cold showers!  Get drunk on water!
Bring back the mule to the field!
Dirt under the fingernails!
Shit to the fallow!

For the greater good of the children...


But the children soon got bored
With their hemp-thread trinket-wood sing-alongs,
Their sunset firefly evenings of Earthly Harmony...

So they trashed it, started a big fire,
Got drunk and laughed...