Get to city hall, take all the stuff out of my pockets
Take off my belt, go through the metal detector
Go up the stairs, in the chamber it's stuffy, as usual
Insufferable dismissive blogger's here
Thoughtful smartass activist
Enormous nepotism hamburger man
Well-composed reporter
Future-minded frustrated young small-business owner parent
Cautious suburban vanguard
Frequent op-ed writer about the price of gasoline
The shitting ass wiped on me
The revulsion of a planetary demise
The insipid skirting around our permafucked lives
Bronzed hierarch, lustrous and lonely
Gaze transfixed on you, civic duty never even asked me to
Surveillance drones have been stately
Hovering over us, hovering over us
We take our seats
And the chairman begins a torrent of bureaucratic drivel
I flex my eardrums out of boredom
Pretend we're all about to jump off a high waterfall
In our own barrels
I belive this is an appropriate analogy
Of what may transpire in the coming decades
It's 2012, bro!
Why are we still talking about this?
Is no one here a scientist?
Should I get arrested right now?
Do you want a vegan cookie? What's a vegan, auuahh?
The shitting ass, the shitting fucking ass wiped on us all
The failure to understand the exponential function
The gleaming phallic excalibur of authority's unction
Bronzed hierarch, lustrous and lonely
Gaze transfixed on you, civic duty never even asked me to
Surveillance drones have been stately
Hovering over us, hovering over us
What defines our power in this space?
Is it just about showing up?
Do I need to be a schmoozer?
What's this "monied interest" thing I keep hearing about?
What's "augenmarkets?"
What's agental realism?
What's voting?
Oh, it looks like the bill's coming to a vote
Or not... one more comment from horsebreath over here
A tangent from a man who doesn't take his job seriously
A straw man, baseless paranoia
Legitimate concerns unspoken and public comment is cut short
Ok, the vote is 9-for, 6-against
Welp, good old boy mayor is probably
Going to use his veto on it
God, this sucks
The gallery begins to leave for a fucking cigarette
No one here is happy
Why do we do this to ourselves?
What are we perpetuating here?
Are these people even cognizant of how their decisions
Are boning my generation?
What about the kids?
Shitting ass
What am I doing with this art besides thwarting myself
And not offering useful, constructive solutions?
Am I breaking a fourth wall here?
How many walls are there?
How many do we really need, anyway?
Shitting ass
Shitting fucking asses
Shitting fucking asses wiped over us
Shitting ass
Shitting fucking asses
Shitting fucking asses wiped all the fuck over us
Over us, over us
Bronzed hierarch, lustrous and lonely
Gaze transfixed on you, civic duty never even asked me to
Surveillance drones have been stately
Hovering over us, hovering over us