Send 'em down
Let 'em cry
Let 'em try
To pick a life
And grab that ring 
That sings
Of cotton candy
   melting in the summer
      sun
And running through 
   the night
      with belching
         snorts
            and arguments

Come one, 
   come all
Watch the freaks
   that we display
      and get your butt
Away
   from us
      before we
         call the cops
            and spill 
               the beans
How you've wasted
   jelly beans
      that we intended
         do deflect
Your growing knowledge
And respect

Gulp that sugar
Pack those eyes
We don't want
To show our lies

The carnival
   of social trust
      goes on around it's
         market lust
Hawking marbles
   and prostitutes
      the conscience rusts
         in institutes

Sell that soul
   sell it cheap
We'll play music while you
   sleep
Winking eyes
Playing dumb
We want money 
While you come

We've got your children
We've got your past
Now we want to take the last
   of species
      art
         self respect
And now we pocket 
   all that profit
And rattle all that change
While homo sapiens
Absorb the change

Hey you
Petrochemical
Racist frogs
Leap through hoops
And skim those bogs
For soon you'll die
As fish will fry
In vacuum cleaner
   boating skiffs
And bullet driven
Social shifts

(c) 1996 James Oliver Smith, Jr