Wet States

Voting day

I tool down the street to get drain pipe

It’s been raining more than it has in decades

Global warming needs more study

Theoretically

They play

“It’s the End of the World as We Know it (And I Feel Fine)”

On the radio

I turn it up as people file to the schools and churches to be

Disenfranchised

And they turn and stare at me like it’s some kind of joke

Wish it was

When I get back

News organizations are fighting for bias

One’s reporting in favor of their party

The other is so tentative nothing ever gets done

It’s been like this for time out of mind

But you just want to shake the shit out of them...

It’s RAINING, fuckers.

Get your shit together and fix this

Now I’m warm but wet in my room

Wanting to turn on my heat but I can’t

Because of economic conditions

My buddy online tells me he can’t get a job

And they just won’t throw the bums out without a fight

It’s like kids squabbling over a toy truck

When there are ten thousand lives in the balance

And while artistically that’s a great image

I’m sick of getting my heat from candles