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Sing the song of all

Sing the song of all

 

When the biopsy comes back

I can't help but think

where the fuck is Spiderman

when you really need him?

 

Where is that Buddha boy

when loneliness strangles you

and the street poets sell out

for a hand full of applause?


When the Super Ego comes dancing

beside itself with sweet reflections, 

where is the Woody Guthrie man

to sing the blues to our glories?


This guitar kills fascists, the prophet's guitar made its promise. So,

where are the wire haired highwaymen when we most need them?

Where is the match to Blake's burning bow, to the ribbon of road?

 

O yes when the gold around your soapy necks

and the discreet metals in your mobile phones

come already blood stained from the Congo,

 

I can't help but think where the fuck is Tarzan 

when you really need him, when black massacres

black to feed white greed for the earth's resources?

 

I can't help but think where the fuck is Buddha boy

when you really need him, when Olympic China

burns the world's ozone as it floats over old Tibet?

 

Yeah! Where the fuck is Spiderman

when you really, really need him?

 

 

jgh©2008

 

 

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