Smile! Your Mom Chose Life!

from Poetry Collection - 01 by Cody Weber

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I smoke like I have death in mind
I guess I'm not the cautious kind
I come unfurled in this unkind world
I should have stayed curled up in bed

but I watched the saddest news instead
a corporate chain and talking head
brought to you by the state of unemployment
and you don't know why, but you know you want it
the second that it's advertised
but don't blame us, we're unadvised
and in fact we are encouraged

A consumer buys to feel baptized
in a place that makes him feel pint-sized
and discouraged.

Have you ever been on the poverty diet?
Where you eat your bologna and you're thankful and quiet
because at least you got to eat today!
and it might not always be this way

because we are a country perpetually stuck
We are all millionaires that are down on our luck
and use social programs like they're poverty camps
"Thank god it's a card now and that it's not still stamps!"

Is life about just buying shit?
Is that the only thing that makes us tick?
Our Jesus Christ of Bethlehem has a corporate sponsorship
Nobody dares bite the hand that gives to us
The Holy Writ of Consumption.

and you have no control of it.
It is your life's presumption
to obtain and to acquire
in a global mass corruption
You can only feed the fire
and mourn the next eruption

Come morning it will start again,
the rules of which have always been
Do not feel at home in your skin.
Do not let your neighbor win
and have the bigger SUV
The better home and family.

It's the American way and the way to be.
Our grandparents fought. They were draftees.
For us to have the rights that they
lost on graduation day
so we enslaved the middle east to pay them back
A brown desert turned the darkest black
We installed dictators specifically catered
to follow us through on this blessed attack.

The money made was worth the lives
that it took to have these cars to drive
You could hear them as their bones snapped
and cracked so we could thrive

And then there come these two airliners
with passengers who decided violence was how they'd react
Our leaders took the bait from terror designers
And forced onto us, The Patriot Act
Who needs a warrant? Privacy is archaic!
We can read all your lives on the blogging mosaic!

When everything is about to crash
you have to stay a step ahead of the population
They work against you because to them you are trash
These are the people that make our decisions.

It's kind of like praying in that you can do it and help nobody
but still feel like you did

If you're ignorant of history
you can be proud of what it is.