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Insanity (It's Calling Me)
by Charles Peter Watson

Monday, March 22, 2010
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Originally, these were the lyrics to a song. Upon leaving my band, I turned them into this poem, an amusing biting satire on popular culture of this turn of the century.

For months to years, there’s blurry visions aired on HD screens

where silicon-chip boob tubes wet nursed health-deficient ‘tweens.

It’s diva sweeps & treason chic. That’s hot! You know, like, neuvo-clique.

Off to probe our warming globe for greener worlds to seek.

Damn, it sucks, this growing old, where dumb & smart collide

and data gained a light-speed time gives aid to speed freak pride.

Why do I not understand a single text U say?

Don’t you know that with a ring, I’d blow your car away?

Insanity
 

Paris once in France’s heart is now an heiress be

while being real’s colloquial on poor rich MTV

Fun’s prescribed most commonly to offset common boredom

Girls gone wild on alcohol can lend your ass in whoredom

Poor white trailer trashiness can drive Mercedes-Benzes

into anybody’s life and pay for their expenses.

Children born to skeletal recidivists of detox

surely reap the benefits their parents spent on Botox.

Insanity
 

Now the body is a cell

locked inside an iPod shell

bound for Idol worship hell

hoping their just hot enough, LOL.

On a map, you cannot find

all the smarts you left behind

or the nation you’ve defined.

How do you spell ‘undermined’ in the time it will tell?

 

Greener gas alternatives can’t beat an SUV

unless it’s in a race to see which tank won’t reach the E

Telling red from blue is hard without a D or R.

Text some digits, you can vote your 15-minute star.

Karma is a strange excuse to use instead of fate.

Vulgar words that piss folks off are banned for spreading hate.

Why not outsource bitching over jobs sent overseas?

If someone’s illegal, do they speak ‘illegalese?’

Insanity. It’s calling me
 

How can square pegs fit their niche inside a pigeonhole

when all that’s deemed ‘alternative’ is common rock’n’roll?

If you win the war on drugs, how will you celebrate?

Who needs Desperate Housewives when your cult allows you 8?

Your daughter’s eyes need major Lazik if she thinks you’re neat

Once I’ve had a certain Crow, she’ll need more than one sheet

Now I finish with my rant on popularity

post this work to 10 more friends & good luck being free.

Insanity. It’s calling me.

 

 

 


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