Waving Goodbye To Their Future

Every day they seem to slip just a little bit further out of our grasp

Their color isn’t good and it’s almost like they no longer care

They’re even less aware than our dear children - whom they cannot recognize

But at some point they gotta realize we got lives of our own to live

Lots of us are saying they’ll just have to be able to take care of themselves

Life must go on for we the living, so we’ll just have to let them go

It’s not like we don’t got our own futures covered, what with christ and all

So we’ll just take a moment to wave goodbye from amidst our noisy fortunes

After all, we are, one and all, in this competition called the pursuit of happiness

Their far-off signals are pretty much indecipherable along our hurried way

So we’ll see them off and wish them well on whatever road that they may find

We cannot sacrifice our very lives providing for all their needs forever

They do not seem to grasp the vitally important nature of our feverish pursuits

They cannot share the passions which consume us to the exclusion of all else

Their silent presence can become oppressive when we have so much to do

We all must learn we just have to let them go - even if they might not go away

They cannot realize the immense burden their simple presence generates

In any case, how can they expect their milk without fighting for a teat

Their passive and unwavering silence cannot fail to hurt their cause

Because the earth’s sweet goods get divvied up to whomever grabs the most

But every day our own needs seem greater and their voices grow even fainter

So we leave them on an ice floe or cast them into the river in tiny fragile boats

We borrow a moment to wave goodbye and then hurry back upon our noisy way

We grant them their freedom and independence, out of sight and out of mind

We absolve ourselves of knowledge, responsibility and any guilt on their behalf

We wish them well and wave goodbye and promise we’ll meet again, somewhere up in heaven

So we set the children of the future free that we might get on with our own pressing lives

We forever turn our backs on them for we have determined to have it all today

In My Staunchly-Conservative Christian Heart

In my heart I just know we have the best healthcare system in the whole entire world

Years of prayer have forged in me a belief that religious fanatics must be stopped

Deep inside, something tells me they are poor because they are both inferior and lazy

Our Traditional Family ValuesÔ are so deeply ingrained I never question where they come from

I take it on faith that abortion and gay marriage are weighty government social issues

For me, talking with my savior yields guilt-free and forever unquestionable decisions

I know in my heart that Social Darwinism is god’s chosen way and that I am an exceptionist survivor

The defense industry’s bogeyman message reverberates in me with a frightening ring of truth

In my heart I know they’ll create better new jobs – just as soon as they export all our old ones

I can believe simultaneously in personal responsibility and deficit bailout spending

Of course I should save, but social security is rightfully funded by pay as you go

The core values she instilled in me, drive me to visit my Mother once a week at the nursing home

My gut tells me that we cannot ever afford to go soft on defense, like those squishy liberals

Just looking at them, I know these precious children of mine will someday lead the world

Something deep within me whispers that our Savior must take a leading role in our governance

It is our sacred ancient belief that the government should remain forever outside of business

In my heart, the traditional values of jobs and money prevail over such as idle tree-hugging

I never question that many generations to come will shop and be entertained much as we do

Surely it is unequivocally right for our leaders to bid that God Bless America after every speech

Our collective wisdom warns that worn-out failed socialist programs should never be revived

I don’t need junk science or fuzzy math to know climate change is simply a costly con job

The wisdom of our forbearers guides us, though events 10 years ago are irrelevant history

I harbor deep-seated suspicions about resurrecting those failed liberal policies of the past

Litmus wedge issues vibrate in my heart, ringing with importance and self-evident truth

Well certainly, I know from their ads that our food supply is safe, humane and sustainable

It’s obvious to me that they’ll have found inexpensive alternatives once all the oil is gone

My heart knows that retaining focus on the current quarter’s GDP ensures all of our futures

I just know that invisible corporate leaders are selflessly charting a wise course for us all

I take on faith the dictum that no one has the right to limit our number of children

Our clear role as god’s fruitful stewards is to triage the natural world based solely upon our needs

Anyone can see that turning boggy, insect-ridden wetlands into suburbs is real progress

Externalities like air, water and habitat are simply no concern of government or business

Yes, I accept the need for hands-off bailouts based on the dire warnings of our leaders

Their knowing smirks and dismissive laughter strike true chords deep inside my heart

It is self-evident that we require neither expense nor sacrifice to stay our noble course

I am warmed by my certainty that our god has blessed only us, His one and only chosen people

Our Live Eco-Death Watch

Silently we document our progress in destroying the earth, even as it still sustains us

Uncomprehendingly we chart the unplanned spread of our vast and poisoned cities

We note that our microscopic plastic particulates crowd out the ocean’s protozoa

Tallying the number of extinctions like sheep, squishy Greenies fall again into a restless sleep

Jotting down the count of poisoned rivers and ruined lakes helps occupy our hands

The amount of cropland gone to desert every year is one vital sign that folks are tracking

The coal-fired consumer progress of India and China fills our patients lungs

We note with compassion that our numbers grow even as the count of species drops

We observe animals struggling to adjust their ranges apace with climate change

Dispassionately we sum forests slashed for firewood, temporary cropland and cheap construction

Spreadsheets correlate rising ocean acidification with parts per million of CO2

Our budgets unemotionally reflect increases in defense and corresponding cuts to child care

With a detached accuracy, lab tests reveal annual increases in river contaminants

Mourning elders recount the joy and wonder of the prematurely old and dying world they knew

Studies show marine life riddled with our mutagens and metals, but offer no solutions

Unable to assist we do, however, await the continuing stream of expert reports

We self-anoint ourselves with the title of the first life form to produce a mega-extinction

Seated on vinyl chairs in a dark hospital, we watch as our population metastasizes

We observe weakened circulation as another great river fails to reach the sea

The loss of the arctic icecaps is a mere side effect, like the balding of a chemo patient

We measure the growing number of those depending on shrinking fossil water wells

Experts point to the strictly increasing number of life forms which must disappear to sustain us

Holding back our emotions, we duly note our command to our god that he bless us

We write of the annually-increasing record temperatures to distant loved ones

We note briefly that economic conditions force us away from environmental concerns

We are able to disassociate ourselves from the victim’s plight, at least in our minds

Many among us still reject the truth and refuse to discuss funeral arrangements

Rodents and insects scurry about in greedy preparation for our inescapable demise

We stand wrinkled and disheveled in gray hallways overfilled with strange echoes

And experts offer little life support for any of the many systems failing, all at once

Young scientists rush to catalog new species from the first and only individuals ever to be found

We document changes to fishes in waters filled with fire retardants and hormones

Government leaders can only assure us they are doing everything the best that they can

We still await an experimental breakthrough yielding a quick fix and a happy ending

But there are those who just want this horrible suffering to simply finally be over

And at last the bells are ringing, ringing, calling us home thru an odd false twilight

Bring On Them Libtards

Gonna whip some Snowflake ass!

Let’s see these skinny vegan dope smokers stand up to our smirking spin doctors

Yeah, come on you queer, yellow recyclers, just try and make us sort thru our garbage

Think you’ll make us pay 6 bucks a gallon to fill up our muscular diesel pickups?

Just step on out here and we’ll show you what these extra pounds can do to you

Try and make me eat that tough grass-fed beef and I’ll show you a thing or three

Come around here and I’ll hose you down with this stuff I spray on my kid’s lawn

Jest get in the road and I’ll dust your puny bicycle with my powerful Dodge Ram diesel

Which one of you don’t wanna bailout my maxed out credit cards and reset mortgage loan?

Your little friends don’t like my snowmobile, well, I say dammit, just bring em on

You’re against my OHV, step over here brother and I’ll wring your turkey neck

You want to take away my jet ski but I’m here to tell you what - I’ll fight for my rights

We’ll whip your green asses if you say we support terrorists with every tankful

They caint make us turn down our thermostats or turn off the stinkin lights and TV

We’ll proudly idle in the drive-thru line and eat bacon double cheeseburgers, all we please

We’re stayin with the NFL and NASCAR and you go shove that whatever World Cup

You keep your fuzzy research and we’ll stick with the true facts of Creation Science

We’ll take you to the mat for our right to cheap Chinese imports down to Wal*Mart

We’re pushin back hard on your bullshit about our overeating and never exercising

Let’s just chainsaw them trees they’re hugging with em still hanging up above

Push their girly faces down into the fat tire tracks we made in them useless, muddy wetlands

We’re gonna end this abortion murder and if need be, we’ll kill to get her done

We’ll impale them showy gays with pitchforks and burn them with our torches

Tired of pushy government women hangin up on us after theyre done tellin us what to do

Bring them sheetheads on over here and we’ll hunt them down fer varmint bounties

Just try and make us eat all like salads and we’ll punch out your pasty faces

We’re sick and tired of hearing about the evils of donuts and the glory of tofu

Hell yes, let’s drill everywhere sos we can drive around alone, making lots of noise

Ain’t ridin no buses, scooters are for kids and feck yer teeny-weenie lectric cars

No way we’re trying to touch our heads to our butts doin this bullshit, faggot yogi

Veggies and fruit may be OK fer kids but grownup men need good red meat with ever meal

Meditatin aint got nothing to do with jesus word my friend, so you can jest ferget it

You can have yer overpriced artesian loaves cause traditional families like soft white bread

Let’s stone their botoxed pushy feminist leaders down at the county fairgrounds, just fer fun

You think we fight wars of liberation just sos you can go socialize our healthcare system?

Won’t give up this struggle til they peel the remote out from my cold dead fingers

So bring em on and we’ll take em on here, just like we done over there in Whateverstan

Impotently Green

Waste good water washing out tin cans as you watch us proudly throw theirs away

Buy that cute little hybrid which you could pull up inside our 9 passenger behemoths

Carry out your groceries in eco-evil cotton bags as 5 billion new plastic ones are tossed away

Pay extra for wind power as the Chinese open 2 dirty-tech coal-fired plants every week

Combine your trips to save gas and pass by the obese idling blankly in fast food drive-thru lines

Call for climate change action as neighbors fight it by simply adjusting their thermostats

Reduce your eco-footprints even as hordes of new middle class Asians join in over-consumption

Walk quietly in the woods listening as drunk, gas-powered wreckreationists roar by shouting

Screw in funny bulbs as their unblinking, high-watt nightlights obscure the entire night sky

Invest in a solar panel quickly blocked out by our new 5000 square ft McMansion

Cook meals from scratch at home as millions of us find it cheaper to graze at McDonalds

Pay more for grass-raised, antibiotic & feedlot-free meat that should cost less to produce

Forgo children while the impoverished uneducated drop more than their share upon you

Try helping to do more with less funding while our arms producers secure no-bid, cost-plus handouts

Pick up a bit of road litter as entire ocean basins fill with tons of our plastic trash

Fret over packaging as Chinese factories pay bribes to dump toxins into rivers every night

Worry over a sustainable future while our financial wizards achieve total market meltdown

Xeriscape your lawn to a scraggly brown even as 3^rd world squatters turn vast tracts into desert

Save precious water as we waste billions of gallons from non-renewable fossil aquifers for free

Contribute to environmental watchdog groups as conglomerates efficiently strip-mine the seas

Watch as your careful recycling gets dumped or shipped back to Asia just to wrap more imports

Whine pointlessly for solar power as Big Coal revs up subsidized mountain top strip mining

Contribute to wildlife societies as 3 billion others suffer an abject, subhuman poverty

Listen to us pit the earth against family values to avoid so-called intrusive over-regulation

Demand sustainable economics even as we bail out the very financiers who ruined you

Just try asking us to consider the next thousand years when we only plan for the next quarter

Hear the under-employed snicker over climate worries in the wake of the Great Recession

Watch us laugh in incredulity at your proposals to CO2 tax gas up to $4 a gallon

Go about in heavy sweaters as we romp in shorts in their uninsulated trophy homes

Eat wilted veggies and healthy oils as we swill down and throw away factory fast food

Forgo new clothes for thrift stores which then have no donations to send overseas

Give so that stray dogs may live yet ignore the saved from abortion but unwanted, bastard children

Give that stray dogs may live as we ignore the unwanted, bastard children we saved from abortion

Take to heart our scornful braying against expensive mandated environmental restoration

Make those 20 steps to greener living that we undo daily before even getting to work

Carefully check the ingredients but remain unaware of their adulterated Asian sources

Take the long view of a spaceship earth in a dying world ADD’d on our get-rich-quick delusions

We Just Caint Ruin It All

We aint gonna be able to kill off all the different songbirds before we’re all done here

A few frogs and such will find a way to barely scrape by until we’re dead and gone

There’ll still be a couple small hardwoods left to repopulate the once-great hardwood forests

Try as we might we wont be able to strip the oceans bare of every single bit of life

Might even be 1 or 2 other primates left when we’re done slaughtering each other

Won’t kill off all the cats everywhere, and buddy, you can bet they’ll radiate once again

Why, there could be several little whales or dolphins left to evolve one more time

Won’t get the chance to slash and burn every bit of that complex rain forest canopy

Betcha that not all those million northern lakes will lie poisoned and dead from our actions

Not every single river will be nothing more than a canalized open sewer, but we’ll try

There’ll still be a couple un-bulldozed meadows when we are caught, surprised, in our acts

Our random gratuitous high-decibel noise will even end, though we will not hear the following quiet

No amount of our poisons will eradicate all the insects before our time has passed

Why there’ll even be a few oil deposits we’ll still be working when we’re interrupted

We’ll all be gone long before we can slash and settle that entire vast boreal belt

Won’t be around long enough to wipe out all major life forms with our global warming

Can’t even make scars on the earth that last more than one short geological epoch

Won’t have time to turn the entire atmosphere the dingy brown of our so-called great cities

Will not need to recycle before it’s way too late to make even the slightest difference

There’ll still be any number of heathen non-believers among the last ones of us to die off

It’ll be impossible for us to kill each other all off before the earth stops supporting the rest of us

Not any of that silent wisdom will have disappeared before we are gone, once and for all time

These death throes cannot even hope to perturb the vast life force of the universe

This desecration of ours cannot ever rival the catastrophe of a good-sized meteor impact

We’ll never get Antarctica warmed up enough to settle before moving on for good

We cannot notice that the undefined cannot be affected by our senseless fiddling

All our pointless piddling cannot disturb the inescapable event horizon of the void

Even our unthinkable all-out nuclear war would not put an end to all life on this earth

Won’t have a chance to even give a proper burial to the last of our own corpses

There’s no possibility of our dirty seed spreading beyond this once-blessed blue planet

We cannot poison all the soil with the strip mines we blithely turn and walk away from

Can’t quite get the branch that still supports us sawed completely off before we take a fatal fall

There’ll still be good new military hardware rusting for a while when we’re gone

They’ll have unpaid loans and credit cards and shopping to do even as the bills stop coming

Future generations wont get to see this generous world which we could not quite destroy

Caint ruin everything before our good work comes at last to it’s well-deserved fruition

Feeling Good, Doing Badly

You’ll be laid off when you’re about 50 and your services won’t ever be needed again

On the other hand they’ve pushed back your full retirement age until at least the age of 70

We’ve developed nearly magical cures for all the illnesses that will soon plague you

Unfortunately, they’ll be far beyond all your government benefits and meager savings put together

You’re grounded by the wondrous set of private dialogs you’ve shared with your personal savior

But you pack with 3000 other prairie dogs in a Wal*Mart style mega-church to worship him

She walks dogs at the Humane Society and donates to groups with cute puppy calendars

You’ll find her serving guests tender veal that can never even stand up inside their tiny pens

Under great duress they righteously accorded several species their so-called protection

Meanwhile, the seas were strip-mined of all life and filled with microscopic plastic

I reflect upon my efforts at recycling with a certain greenish sense of satisfaction

My used paper heads off to China to be used to package all the imports we don’t make here anymore

We provided temporary jobs for honest loggers harvesting the last of those valuable big trees

But now there’s no more logs to ship and tourists don’t visit to gawk at trees and spend their money

You borrowed millions and started carving a remote area into a toney second home resort

Your little friends pulled the plug on your leveraged scheme, so you just walked away

I am searching for the miraculous and straining with every fiber for cosmic understanding

I’ve got juicy soft porn sites bookmarked that I visit with a monk-like regularity

They demanded our personal responsibility regarding health care as well as pensions

On the other hand they were bailed out by crooked cronies with no strings attached at all

We could step in and lower your interest rate and we could even guarantee your loan

But with your no-down and equity re-financing you’re still way too far underwater for you to bother

Things are looking so much better for us now than earlier in this bloody financial quagmire

Yet, no one will ever be held responsible for the crimes and sins that got us there to start with

You rage against the fact that you only earn 80% of your male colleagues takings

But they’re working 10% overtime & holding the door as you leave early again, for your lame kids

At last you’re free to enjoy all the wondrous things that you’ve always dreamed of

Your eyes are bad, your back is sore, your wind is gone and you never hatched a nestegg

Smart consumers have at last stopped credit spending and some have even begun to try and save

Alas, such wise household spending attitudes cause stocks to fall and even more jobs to disappear

Honest citizens have been freed from oppressively high fuel prices once again

Just in time to fuel another surge in purchases of gas-guzzling SUVs & obese, road-hogging pickups

The car dealers, real estate agents, cruise lines, and hip restauranteurs were mired in recession

And they say consumer spending always solves our economic crises and certainly never causes them

The vacuous, self-serving geniuses of Wall Street are getting flak over giant bonuses again this year

On the other hand they’re not going to jail cause they’ve convinced us we still can’t do without them

For Real Heartland Consumer Sacrifice

Well, I’ll give up my drive-thru lunch a coupla days each week

Just sos that I can take the OHV out with the boys on Saturday afternoon

I can get the old lady to cook shit out of cans or maybe even from like raw stuff

Instead of nuking up them pricey microwave dinners that we really like

Turning off the diesel sometimes instead of idling in air-conditioned comfort

Just to save a teeny bit of that there artificially expensive fuel

Adjusted my thermostat even though the kids just set there whining

Had to make some changes cause the bill’s gone through the roof

Gonna turn off the big screen when we’re not at home and maybe unplug it at night

Damn electric keeps on going up every single month

Ta hell with that fancypants overpriced organic shit

My kids’ll do just fine on white bread and them plastic-coated, factory-extruded hamburg logs

Look, I’m even walking all the way back out to the stinkin mailbox

Drivin to grammaws instead of flyin - Which I hated anyway

Cant afford to trade in my 2 year old SUV even if it does only get 10 MPG

So, but now I’m tryin to drive less than 20 thousand miles a year

Cutting back to generic cookies and not watching so many pay-per-views

That liberal climate conspiracy is costing us all a whole lot of money every day

The old lady’s not getting botoxed and her toenails got the colora yella baby shit

Gotta start savin somewhere, so first I cut out that stupid fitness center I never go to

It’s for sure we won’t be attendin that awesome church ski vacation this year

But we’ll still be able to ride our jet skis a few weekends out to the lake

Wonderin about this family plan that costs $200 a month for a coupla phones

After all I just spent 600 bucks on school sneakers the kids tore up in a week

Have to share less quality time with my boys now that bullets are $4 each

I’ll make it up to them though, at home playing them shooter video games together

Switching credit cards to get a lower rate for at least the next six months

Oughta free up some extry cash for when our mortgage rate resets again

Cuttin back on pert near everything just like they slashed my job and downsized my life

But still got enough time to catch NASCAR and the good old NFL on the bigscreen with a cold one

However, not gonna enjoy them growlin snow machines as often since they was repossessed

Waitin for the real belt-tightenin ta begin since them tax and spenders are in control

Cut out the produce and the fruits too - sos we could still have chips, cokes and Budweiser

Only seein the frickin ripoff dentist again when I cant stand the pain no more

Gotdamm dogs’ll have to get by cause they ain’t going to the vet again this year, either

Look - We’re makin some real sacrifices up in the heartland for the good of family, god and country

Happiness Was

Enjoying all the good times spent driving too far back home after working way too late once again

Financing all manner of gadgets, gaudy renovations and re-decorating with unearned home equity

Sitting mesmerized year after year before the empty spectacle of the corporate sports altar

Awaking over and over again in the dark night to relive some imagined office slight

Looking forward so long to all those wondrous vacations we can’t even remember now

Being freed from our grandfather’s thrifty guilt by modern finance go-go negative savings rates

Scarfing down donuts to quell that anxiety which gnawed just as if it were real hunger

Steadily increasing our disposable income thru the miracle of multiple maxed out credit cards

Gunning a loudly-modified diesel exhaust while passing an old Japanese economy car

Dreaming, just like your little friends, that things would never really change that much

Leaving the kids to cellophane-wrapped snacks and their latest video games

Getting paid for doing nothing and saving big on Chinese slave labor down at the Wal*Mart

Tossing out any and all kinds of chemical rubbish and never even thinking of it again

Swallowing whole their expensive lies about the terrible enemies surrounding us

Laughing hard with everybody else about the need for even moderate exercise

Gleefully marginalizing the wackos and scientists, the squishy liberals and those silly tree huggers

Smirking at the weaklings as they scrimped and saved, recycled and economized

Blowing off boring nutrition and eating for the salty or sweet taste of fiber-free, fatty fast foods

Resting quite assured that god watches over and blesses only us, every single day

Visiting our drugged elders in the warehouse whose glossy brochures met all of their senior needs

Driving enraged and alone in a junk Detroit barge built to carry 8 fully-grown & obese adults

Sucking down expensive, high-calorie lattes like clockwork, every day at 10

Labeling recycling as an unnecessary and dubious virtue, simply of no real consequence

Projecting arrogance and pride through our loudly exceptionist and totally ethnocentric ignorance

Coddling our precious children, each quite exceptional & prize-winning in its own very special way

Demanding at every political foto-op that god should bless this land and our traditional excesses

Extinguishing exotic animals for firewood, marginal crops and other short-term, so-called progress

Condemning religious fanatics after prayerful talks with our own personal saviors

Treating our livestock like raw materials and manufacturing our food crops like factory goods

Acting as if consumer spending could actually be the driving force behind any sustainable economy

Expecting to continue this orgy of mindless consumption somewhere off in our fairytale heaven

Flattening forests and turning rivers into sewage pipes and our lakes into cesspools

Condemning all environmental and safety measures as too costly in terms of jobs and money

Cynically labeling research as junk science and fuzzy math and stalling for more study

Mocking their foolish efforts at saving tiny mice, foolish desert fish, stupid frogs and such

Plunging blindly on with the righteous moral authority granted to us by our one true savior