Shitbird …
I’ve got news for you
You’re standing outside
And you’re looking in
Watching me eat
Watching me thrive
Unclear about what you’re looking at
Unclear about how you feel
Unclear about where
you
actually
stand

Shitbird …
I’ve got news for you
You’re outside without a jacket
And it’s raining
And you’re looking at me
Staring out at you
In my black pinstripe suit
warm
dangerous
quiet
Unclear about your next move
Unclear about your jealousy
Unclear about your rage
that’s
burning
inside you

Shitbird – now listen …
I’ve got news for you
This is important
F*** AIDS in Africa …
How about AIDS in your bloodstream?
F*** Soylent Green and Mad Cow …
How about Green Jello and Big Mac’s
horse hoofs & hormone beef?


F*** Acid Rain …
How about Planetary drought?
F*** the war in the middle east …
How about a Biological Pandemic,
Germ Warfare or a flesh eating virus?
You should be concerned,
But you’re not.
You should be thinking deep, Mate,
But you’re not.

Shitbird …
You’re too busy trying to be
a better consumer
You’re far too concerned about
Social climbing
Acquisition of cheap plastic crap
Struggling to fit in
All the proper mod-cons
Playing by the bureaucracy
Just like a real Shitbird
That’s you – the Shitbird

Shitbird …
I’ve got news for you
This is the last thing now -
It’s important
I don’t have any answers
I probably never will
This isn’t poetry
About your broken heart
It’s not a haiku
About a one-night-stand
This isn’t some bullshit tale
About my own petty self-indulgence
It’s not a sermon
About everything you did that was wrong

Quite the opposite

It’s about

all you’re about to do
I wouldn’t break a sweat though, Shitbird …

You’ve got some
– real –
sunny days
ahead.












from: During the Apocalypse (2007)