The Tea Party Kid

In a make believe world 

he sips imaginary tea 

from an empty cup. 

A little kid pretending 

he’s all grown up,

rebel yelling ‘spending cuts!’ 

but what he really says is 

‘me, me, me,

my plans, my wars, my policy!’

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Mass Hypnosis

I finally got rid of that propaganda tool 

cuz I am so tired of being played for a fool 

so I turned in my cable box  

and now, like in the good old days, 

commercial interruptions is the price I pay 

for free TV, 

limited to a certain degree 

but ten channels of crap is hardly any different 

than a hundred channels of the same.