August 22, 2007
I wrote this in July of 2001. I had just gotten back from Ullapool, Scotland. I think it came from late night conversations I had with a socialist Scottish hotel owner and an conservative Irish heart surgeon. They were under the impression that I was an American history professor.
SACRED COW(Protest Song)
By David McKinnis(7/23/2001)
Several thousand people gathered into the streets
The champagne socialists are chanting slogans of the week
What’s wrong with this picture?
I’d like to know
Several hundred people choked on saren gas today
The Aum Shinrikyo was just insuring Judgement Day
What’s wrong with this picture?
We’d all like to know
Now you just can’t tell me everything’s alright
These folks got nothing better than to dream and scheme all night
They are here!
They are now!
They’d gore your sacred cow
And we’ll just sit and watch them on our T.V. safe and sound
Today a single person helped a person in need
On this the Fourth Estate was silent since no one died in the deed
It's paltry poetry but it still bugs me that it came out of my head just before everything changed.
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