Quidam's View

Against the Grain

by Colleen Barry
Written 12-05-04

Calling all freak shows,

Your time is now, so stifle the sobbing whimpers,

Against the grain now we will go and

Provoke the old men’s tempers.

Raise your hands for a righteous cause,

Fight a battle for the lost.

Gather the group up and evacuate,

Losing time, now, it’s too late.

 

It’s worth the trouble to make some noise,

To wake a world still snoozing,

So hurry up and join the fight,

To win back what we are losing.

 

We’re laughing at the world’s creations,

Tripping on it cracked foundation…

Watching as he gets beat down,

While trying to turn their heads around.

 

The fire’s hot and getting bigger,

So sound for a four-alarmer,

Call out the National Guard for now,

And go alert the neighbors.

Our time is now for chiming in, unless we choose in silence,

And act against a flawed vaccine,

Injecting a flavored violence.

 

Catch a cold from the kid next door

And then give it to your brother,

And soon the entire world be sick

With a highly infectious fever.

The shot he gets only makes him sicker,

He vomits up what they do fear,

But quarantined in this room forever,

Won’t keep his thoughts locked up in here.

 

Rub against the grain and swim

Backwards up the river,

Against the tides and crashing waves…

The opinion of another.

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