i asked the brown bag prophet if it bothered him that the city had cancelled the annual fireworks he said ain’t nothing
to
celebrate
this
fourth of july
won’t even
make
a good wake
for
a dying nation
a nation
with
an ever growing
body bag
count
bagging up
blacks
and
browns
those grown
and
those
who’ll
never
get to grow
shot dead
as they read
what a great nation we are
should have read
we were
and
when we’re done
bagging up
the nra’s
school lunches
we’ll starting
filling up the bags
with
botched abortions
or
young mothers
who died
giving birth
to
a child
demanded by
and
abandoned by
good christians
protecting
a moral code
written
on rice paper
promoted
by
demigods
of
greed
so please
don’t ask me why
i’m
not celebrating
or
upset
about
cancelling
a fantasy freedom event
overpopulation
drains resources
from
the economy
it’s
that
old
supply and demand issue
if you have fewer people
however
we reach a state
of
sustainability
but
this state
has been elusive
even though
we’ve tried
traditional methods
of
population control
contraceptives
one-child policies
etc.
all
have
failed
miserably
ah
but now
the supreme court
has come up
with
a bulletproof method
for
dealing
with
this pesky issue
of
overpopulation
and thereby
facilitating
corporate profits
their first solution
is
culling
let people have
more
guns
so
they can kill one another
that way
only those
with
the fastest draw
from
a concealed compartment
on
their person
survives
you guessed it
the numbers move
quickly
towards
sustainability
but
those
mentally challenged justices
didn’t stop there
no
they also initiated
manipulation
of
reproductive capabilities
by
forcing women
to
have children
regardless
of
any life threatening
medical
or
mental condition
not even
poverty
rape
incest
something quite near and dear to gop hearts
will forestall
the unwanted births
thus
the number
of
maternal deaths
will increase
well
above
our already
record breaking numbers
again
with
the resultant effect
of
decreasing
the population
but wait
there’s more
translocation
the number
of
thinking
patriotic
americans
will decrease
as
the number
of
freedoms
are stolen
by
the court
they will flee
the oncoming dictatorship
to
relocate
to nations
that have
democracy
isn’t
that
just
brilliant
and before you know it
sustainability
will be
achieved
i want
to
sincerely
express
my appreciation
for
your honest
statement
of
your deepest trepidations
but
as a mild point
of
perspective
i liked
to
call to your attention
to
this year’s
169 thousand deaths
of
mothers
that occurred
during
childbirth
oh
and
the
2 million hectares
of
forest
that has been lost
to erosion
erosion
produced
by
man’s negligence
of
the planet
oh
and one last thing
to mention
the
23 thousand people
who died
of
hunger
today
but
your serious
concerns
about
the availability
of
live lobsters
in
your local
market
will
of
course
be
given
appropriate
consideration
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