BS, BS, BS and more BS -a poem

BS, BS, BS – a poem  (5/30/18  updated 7/20/20)

The National Rifle Association (NRA)

Has the country by the throat

 

It doesn’t matter what we think

Or feel

The NRA will have its way

 

They have their member’s addresses

All five million of them

And these people vote

And they vote for guns

 

The US is the only country in the world

Where an average citizen can buy an assault weapon

 

The NRA members say

“It is our right

it says so right in the constitution”

 

“The government shall not impinge on the right to bear arms”

 

which, of course, means

Joe blow, down the street

can buy surface-to-air missiles,

bullets that can pierce bullet-proof vests,

and guns that go rat-a-tat-tat

 

Ms. Gonzales of Parkland High School said it all:

“It’s all BS”

 

of course it is

just listen to the arguments of the NRA supporters

 

it’s all BS

 

Reason has left the building

 

On the other hand, the NRA opponents say:

“Tell me again, why does a person need to own an assault rifle?”

 

and

 

“What did the Founding Fathers mean by that line in the Constitution?”

 

But this is not the only BS flying around the country

 

Most of what we hear on the political commentators every night

Is BS

 

BS which is perfumed to be exciting and “breaking news”

BS which has as it’s primary purpose to boost ratings

And thus bring in big bucks

 

Instead of hearing news

all we hear is how they hate Trump

and want to crucify him

 

BS to make millions for the TV stations and

For he big mouths yelling at each other

 

Then they string us along, by saying

“The big breaking news is right after this commercial”

and then

“no, it’s right after the next commercial, and the then next one”

finally there is no breaking news

but just a tiny fart

 

Reason has left the building

 

There is BS in our national debt

In matter of fact, our national debt is drenched in BS

 

Obama was cheered because he cut the deficit in half

That’s right

He brought the deficit up to $1 trillion a year

And then brought it back down to $500 billion a year

Let’s give him a hand

 

And Trump trashed Obama for that deception……..until he got into office

Then Trump found out how easy it was to hand over a credit card

 

After all Reagan did say:  “Deficits don’t matter.”

 

Reagan got away with it

So why can’t the Bush’s, Clinton, Obama, and Trump

Get away with it?

 

Let’s just wait to hear what our kids

and grandchildren

have to say about it

When we hand them the credit card bill!

 

And there’s BS in our hurricanes, floods and draughts

In fact, it’s pouring BS

 

“Basket cases”

is a polite phrase

for what has happened to Puerto Rico, Haiti, and the Virgin Islands

not to mention the floods in Louisiana and the fires in California

 

the victims of these disasters

plea to help them rebuild

 

until next year

when everything will be destroyed again

 

the bullshitters say:

“Global warming doesn’t cost anything

it’s ok to destroy the earth’s environment

as long as we keep our economy rising

as long as our economy

produces more and more junk

more and more toxins

more and more disease causing foods

more and more junkyards and dumps

more and more polluted, toxic waters

 

oh, but we ask,

“how could this happen?

After all, we do recycle our cans and bottles

And we did stop using sprays

And we did buy a Prius”

 

Dumping hundreds of millions of tons

of carbon into the atmosphere every year

with our cars, our airplane trips, and our air conditioners

couldn’t possibly have a negative effect.

 

Our animals, our deforestation,

Our carnivore diet, and our bloated consumption

Couldn’t possibly be a cause

 

But we can’t possibly give these things up

They create “jobs, jobs, jobs”

And I have the right to have these things

 

My rights come before the earth’s health

 

And the poor

in this country and in the world

cry out

 

“Don’t ask me to sacrifice

until I am equal to you

in my consumption

in my destruction of the earth

and then we’ll talk”

 

BS, BS, BS

 

The kids at the Parkland High School were right

But wait till the shit really hits the fan

and they get our credit card bill

 

we’ll give them something to complain about

 

Let’s talk about war

 

Let’s again prove how great we are

by bombing North Korea, Iran, maybe even Yemen

 

(but not the big countries

they might bomb us back)

 

we beat our chests

forgetting about what happened

in World War I and II, and the Vietnam war

 

only guys in nursing homes remember

 

so let’s do it again

just one more time

 

Bob Dylan is still singing

“The answers, my friend,

are blowin in the wind”

 

and indeed they are:

austerity

charity

responsibility

sacrifice

and world government

 

but we all prefer BS

like buffalo stampeding towards a cliff

like Titanic passengers changing seats

(bullshitting each other)