and i’ll tell you what, while we’re at it perpetuate retribution even as the blue toxic smoke of our lesson in retribution and there’s ash on our shoes and there’s ash in our hair and there’s a fine silt on every mantle folks just shake their heads
you can keep the pentagon
you can keep the propaganda
keep each and every tv
that’s been trying to convince me
to participate in some prep school punk’s plan to perpetuate retribution
is still hanging in the air
from hell’s kitchen to brooklyn
and the streets are full of stories
sudden twists and near misses
and soon every open bar is crammed to the rafters
with tales of narrowly averted disasters
and the whiskey is flowin
like never before
as all over the country
and pour
