seems like a harmless toy
but
i’ve begun to wonder
if it wasn’t
an early indoctrination
about mexico
and
its people
people
portrayed
by
speedy gonzales
and
pablo
a gun packing
and
no doubt
violent
lazy mouse
while
speedy’s
promiscuous nature
was conveyed
in lines
like
speedy gonzales
is
friend of my sister
quickly
appended by
speedy gonzales
is friend
of
everyone’s
sister
what strange
saturday morning lesson
to
precede sunday school’s
love thy neighbor
oh
and don’t
get me started
about
three black crows
he’s a madman don’t want no canonization just wants his cheap wine and a pack of lucky strikes all this talk of salvation has made him make a proclamation heaven is full of useless saints quite willing to welcome you in but while earthly bound you’re on your own so he’d rather have cheap wine and a pack of lucky strikes don’t need no door-to-door prophets nor cartoons depicting heaven that no one’s seen but he’s seen the news while in the liquor store ’bout the state of the world and all the dire predictions ’bout most of mankind and he’s seen politicians come and go making the same damn promises everytime sold bought and never delivered to hapless voters so he chooses to be a madman don’t need no canonization just cheap wine and a pack of lucky strikes
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