Applerot puce (1986)

 Not so long ago yellow meant chicken shit, now

It’s a power color for china toothed execs, canary colored

Ties for banana republic tyrants driving bmws thru

Shuddering morning traffic to get to the golf course where chrome

Bumpered carts await while their children lap-up

Computer generated wet dreams while mom looks like

A million but only pays taxes on 60 thou

While looking like the cat who ate the fiscal coalmine canary

While toting the republic’s banner, their march

Is a synchronized goosestepping thru the flowers of people’s

Park as they once stuffed daisies in soldier’s

Rifles they now feed billions into defense industry trifles,

There’s a chilling draft to these diamond dimpled types

As they draft more efficient ways to avoid taxes

While drafting more efficient ways to imprison while

Drawing-n-quartering the heathen, they have

In fact trashed the mythic american dream by

Enforcing the urine test, spewing out neon radioactive

Clouds, forcing school children to kneel and salute

The cloth, promoting the red scare

And warning the tykes not to take their eyes off the pie

Soon the official color will be apple rot puce

And all will dress officially

While attending state-sanctioned executions and

Abortion clinic blockades, the new order has shed the

Pinstriped gangster suit and invoked the

Fashions of miami vice to cloak

Their savagery in pastels 

 

Lawrence KS 1986

Templin hall, KU