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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
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South Louisiana

0 posted 2011-12-23 03:11 PM


worst minds of generation
after generation
asking us to accept an unclothed legitimacy
hippies, now grown aged
living off Big Government, the very one
they tried to destroy
hip society cast them aside like so much elephant dung
still, they hang onto
their liberal dogma, raised fist in the air, yell
Right On, Bro!
today's youth don't have the wherewithal
to change the world
no matter how many times they "Occupy"
no, these dregs of society are much more into
rock and roll and the robbery of the mind; rap
no respect
not for themselves, never mind mother and father
they scream about poverty
instead of living in it as a badge of honor
they trundle back to their upper middle class
or famously rich parents house
no healing for their worn to shreds self-respect
pop enough pills to fade into nothingness
too much independence
but no morals to fight the modern day gargoyles
not to be outdone in the question of foresight
are the universities spewing hate America themes
congress and president
playing partisan hard-ball with our future at stake
we are, sad to say
are experimenting without the will of the people
right wing Ku Klux Klan and left wing Chairman Mao
no middle ground
only total and degrading political warfare
our brain cells hallucinating for a better life
can only pout
and point fingers and scream and rage
for they lack the raw material within
to pull oneself out of the gutter
they are underachievers but are experts
at blaming everyone but themselves
military come to college to give lecture
spat on, insulted, harassed
left-wing guru comes to college to give lecture
welcomed with open arms
given the royal treatment
l-o-v-e-d
insanity is howling
controlling the asylums
which are filled to the brim
with druggie-crashed-and-burnt
another era
of societal nay-sayers
kids, both sexes
selling themselves
to anyone who has the almighty greenback
young, raw meat for perversion
gobblers
and back door ramblers
poets can ramble on too
exposing themselves
to the filth of the tongue
calling it superior scholarly originality
free love never was free
merely the heart's trickery for ego-driven
sexual overindulgence
so!
here we are today
a lightweight for president
a congress whose only job it seems
is appeasing the party faithful
both sides of the aisle
and us
out here, the bleating masses
wanting something
we want it
we're trying to
articulate the vibrancy of our wants
but it is trickery

©December 23, 2011 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

© Copyright 2011 Jerry Pat Bolton - All Rights Reserved
Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
1 posted 2011-12-25 07:31 AM


Feel better? that's letting them have it!
Good for you!

Merry Christmas Jerry
Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
2 posted 2011-12-25 07:34 AM


Actually ranting sometimes leaves you even more disgusted with what you were ranting about.

Thanks Lori, for reading the rant and putting your two cents in.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

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