The Current Political Climate

We shouldn't feel this way this selfish way we shouldn't feel this way
At all. There's a lot going on out there & I just happened to see this
Come across my desk: A man wrote us a letter saying 
He was concerned about receiving mail from us 'cos

Of the current political climate & I said: Well what the fuck
Does that mean? & they said: The goddamn town is boiling!

All the lines can't all be winners. It's a sad state of affairs when
You're too tired to think & too drunk to chase the skirts
To act like you've been there before. But we have been there.
We've been there since the summer of 2002. We get our mail

There. We bring a cup of something hot & sit & wait
For the man to bring us good news about the climate political

Or otherwise. He hates our stupid names & stupid faces
& loses our letters like I'll lose your scent. Just because
He can just because it hurts too much to hold on.
He & I are old enough to know we're being naive

& we still don't give a good god damn. Fuck the right
Thing the adult thing club it like a baby seal & sell it

For a profit. 'Cos some good can come from the loss
Even if it is a bit messy & just a tad unpleasant at times.
These words just this particular set is a waste of wasting
Time & I'm so very sorry if you see them and think less

Of me at all so think of me when I was good when I was
A fucking monster unstoppable & damn-near bulletproof

When all I had to worry about was a finding a home a couple
Of bills I could call my own. I'm running an old program
In a new machine & the gridwork doesn't know how to react
& I don't know how to react to it & I feel we are all getting

Close to something we won't see coming won't be able to put
Our fingers on until it is wringing our weak & sore & stupid necks.