The sign of the times
...that cunning hype...
flashes colored florescent neons
carving out whatever the magnificent media
thinks Johnnie Q wants to hear.

Special interests want to protect the earth
from our extravagance
yet the old blue jewel knows damn well
that we can't prevent it from existing
another billion years
after we're all gone.

Give me a break
you over-educated, tennis playing
paid to say what others want to hear specialist
when you solemnly swear
that second hand smoke is gonna kill thousands
before their time.
Who's to say it wasn't the genetically altered BLTs
that did them in?

Humpty Dumpty
never blamed all the King's Horses
nor all the King's Men
for his obvious imbalance.

Copyright, 1995, by J. Matthew Waters
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