America.

The Beautiful.

(The original pic was apparently scaring people and making cows give sour milk, so I found this Frazetta sketch of Bush, Cheney, Rummy and Rove that seemed equally appropriate. The song, however, as Led Zeppelin said better than I, remains the same.)


Oh Pitiful, these specious lies
Of dissembling Men of Gray.
Their purple prose’d falsities
Gitmo Truth as plain as Day.

America! America!
In the hand’s of such as these.
Bushy punks and Rovish skunks;
Liars, Cheats and Thieves.


Oh secretly the traitors meet,
Queen Judith to impress.
Her lies now lie all at her feet
And yet she won’t confess?

America! America!
Where Crime Lords make the Law.
And fill the rubes through Fox’s tubes,
With sewage dank and raw.


How Cowardly their whelplings prove
Who cringe from Their Own War.
Who more than country, themselves they love:
”Fuck this, let's send the Poor!”

America! America!
Where Da Bush usurps Divine.
Where “Noblesse” no longer “obliges”
...except the Bottom Line.


How grotesque it is, this Fundy scheme
That plays upon our fears!
How piggishly their eyes do gleam
As ruination nears!

America! America!
In the hand’s of such as these.
Bushy punks and Rovish skunks:
Liars, Cheats and Thieves.