here's piece I wrote... I'm not overly fond of the meter, but it was one of those things I could only get out of my head by writing down. So here it is.
I'm a bad consumer
culturally irrelevant
mind is full of tigers
and ideas so malevolent
I hate my stupid wallet
the cards inside aren't part of me
there's bile in my gullet
and economic anatomy
protest, protest
and shake your fist
grab your stuff and
pull and twist
grab the future
have a tryst
protest, protest
and shake your fist
at this rusty rotten spectacle
this sad retracted testicle
this sagging sappy vegetable
his inertia is invincible
I'll raise the fever, give 'em hell
Instead of watching, now I'll yell
Disconnect them, break the spell
(but I'm the jailor AND the cell)
riot, riot
revolution
fire is
the absolution
pollute the air
with unpollution
riot, riot
revolution
I won't be a culture-shill
I changed my life from gray to red
I'll reverse the values they instill
and do the opposite instead
I'm full of death, I'm full of fight
I'm smoking wrong and burning bright
I'll sacrifice myself tonight
so life is better now... right?
rebel, rebel
and shake your crown
build a bridge and
burn it down
stake your cross
into the ground
rebel, rebel
shake your crown
I knocked the products off my shelf
and now the shelves are empty
I should have rebelled against myself
that tyrant has consumed me
nobody heard, no one awoke
like driftwood in the sea
they chose their role in this sick joke
their punchline punches me
wake up, wake up
'cause you should know
that if you hate it,
let it go
and if you love it,
time to go -
wake up, wake up
for the nine to five show