Complacency of a white town

 


Complacency of a white town 

Nothing to bring me up or down

Biking excursions without a helmet 

Empty main street cellmate

Recorded bells patriot the hours

The game of justice for lost souls 

In conservative hellholes

The blight of ghost towns around

With a hospital on the ridge so high

For when they're sick and gonna die

With their bloody Savior on a cross

Damn the workers, bless the boss

A few rainbows and lots of mountain dew

Everything dyed red, white and blue


Conformity of the home bound senior 

Nothing remarkable hanging around

Hunkering down in a riverside town

A place to retire and visit grandchildren 

Maintenance forstalling disintegration 

As privileged neighbors tear apart the nation

Passing the mess to the next generation 

First under an openly fascist regime 

Ripe for revolution bursting at the seams

As I sit and rock on the porch swing

Not waiting for anything 


Aug. 23, 2025

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