FADE IN: CLOSE ON SMOKER SMOKER sits in front of BLACK BACKGROUND and shares. SMOKER I started smoking when I was very young. INSERT:...

Sentimental retardation Slipping back to an earlier time Life was gentle, a brain vacation All loans were above sub prime It’s easy to...

My Fallow Americans, I have made this shithole nation into a great, really great place for me to be the president, and I feel I must take...

When we met I was hitchhiking Headed to Montgomery High You stopped and offered me a ride As down Brush Creek you did fly A crazy kid...

The world is a playground To these boys dressed up as men Their amusement is their Duty as a citizen All the powers of an adult And...

What’s become of friendship Has it sunk into the sea Scuttled by a bad drip Flooded with deep enmity Rotten right to the corps Sadly...

From my electric platform The world’s attention rapt My calling thus to perform On keys my glad hands clapped The glowing screen keeps me...

I have looked down the barrel of many a gun and not because I was cleaning it or suicidal. Many people over the course of my life have...

Tired of holding out for God We want an alien intervention To contend with the problems Which have come to our attention Someone or thing...

One night, while xploring the Beatles The Beatles album (the one that saved a ton on cover graphics only to squander the savings on the...

We are in the cyclone, our world spinning wildly; an all-consuming dervish, roiling about us, urgent, out of control. Lives caught in the...

When I was young, quite young actually, I held a much coveted position as a staff writer for Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows. It was...

I am a weirdo. By my own definition as well as by any societal measure, I am weird. This is neither a brag nor lament so much as a simple...

1984 came and went Big brother’s fate was sealed All the time and money spent To keep this fact concealed Each new lie systems invent...

This should be popular. As Professor Noam Chomsky aptly illustrates, much of our social dialogue is based upon assumptions. Someone with...