Thursday, August 30, 2012

The Real Superheroes



The red and blue Man of Steel
Hardly seemed real
No wonder people began to worship him

He ain’t been stopping bullets
Since he took to the pulpit
He’s got the fastest growing faith in the world

These are the real superheroes
Larger than you or me
These are the real superheros
Gods walking proud and free

And the shadpwy Caped Crusader
Was taken down by Ralph Nader
For embezzlement and stock manipulation

Half a billion in gadgets
Some say even a rocket
Disappeared from his R&D laboratories

These are the real superheroes
High above the law
These are the real superheroes
High up above us all

As for that Amazon princess
She’s still trying to save us
By occupying every protest she can

She traded armor showing her ass
For a jumpsuit smelling of tear gas
Truth telling lasso as a belt

These are the real superheroes
Never giving up the fight
These are the real superheroes
Doing what they can to make things right

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Sleep Well Space Hero



Rider of the Eagle
Whose step was higher than the Great Pyramids
When you wrestled free from Mother Terra
Placed Man’s conquering foot on Luna
No human alive
Did not hear your mightily footstep
In no dark jungle, no burning desert
No frozen waste, no teeming city
Could that step not be heard
Great science hero
Sleep well, space hero

You taught the children
Learned the reasons when other heroes fell
Stayed away from the orators and cynics
Believed in your small, personal god
Refused to sell your voice for gold
Refused to lose hope
As your nation clipped Apollo’s wings
And turned its back on the stars
To read the books of hate
Great humble hero
Sleep well, space hero

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Avocado Ode


Ode to the Avocado
(To the tune of Handel’s Messiah)

AVOCADO!
Avocado!
AVOCADO!
Avocado!
A-VO CA-HA-DO!

AVOCADO!
Avocado!
AVOCADO!
Avocado!
A-VO CA-HA-DO!

Ripe you’re a creamy spread
Best eaten on toasted bread

AVOCADO!
Avocado!
AVOCADO!
Avocado!

Pure sweet green veggie fat
Give me some more of that

AVOCADO!
Avocado!
AVOCADO!
Avocado!

Easiest food ever found
For ages hanging around
Food for some extinct giant
I love you I ain’t lying

AVOCADO!
Avocado!
AVOCADO!
Avocado!
A-VO CA-HA-DO!

Friday, August 24, 2012

Harry's Willy


Isn’t it rather silly
To argue if Harry’s willy
Should get a bit of Sun
When the real problem
Is how nobles still rob men
And when these parasites will be done

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

A Reading Country

To dive back into a book
To enter another's world
After only having read Facebook for so long
To interface with a familiarly alien reality
To feel the weight in my hand
Instead of  burned into my eyes
To rediscover the joy of reading
To reconnect with the tradition
Of aeons of thinkers, dreamers and writers

If we ever lose this
For Tweets and videos and kewl pwning n00bs
We will be lost forever
In a country with no past
And no future