:: Copywrite ::

Are you repeating the same old lines
That some one recycled from somebody else
Who stole them from someone
Who ripped it off the movie
Which was
Based on the poem
Which was
Based on the book

Which was
Inspired by the magazine article
Which was
Written as a historical footnote

Six
Months after the event
In an effort to sell
Advertising space?

And that advertising was a corporate rehash
Of last year's "alternative" trend
Repackaged, and resold to the masses
For the soul benefit of increasing market share

Not for increasing the market benefits of the sharing of the soul

They say there's nothing left that won't cross over
Nothing pure that can't be sold
Nothing original left to say
Nothing that glitters
Quite like gold

Well, I'm told

That some things are real.

Like the breath that I breathe.

(take a deep breath)

Like the one free thought
That I have daily
That no corporation or government agency
Can take from me.

I am alive!

And I ask this question each day:

Why Are We Here?

And brother, it ain't for the beer.

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