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>From: "Chris Hayden" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: A Visitation from Jim Hightower
>Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:06:53 CDT
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> A Visitation from Jim Hightower
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>I aint seen it
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>Shinin' city on a hill / economic opportunity still growing / for everybody
>/ open society / glowin' star of democracy in the Western Hemispheric
>heavens / streets paved with gold
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>The globe-spannin' Pan African Diaspora be 500 years old
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>And I aint seen it
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>Prosperity unparalleled / promised us 40 acres and a mule / guarenteed
>there'd be 2 cars in each garage / equal schools / y'got foools dreamin'
>they livin' large in rap video swimmin pools / fairy tale wine / magic
>lamps
>and wishes / frog to prince changin kisses /
>Tell all the kiddies go sleepy bye
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>Every man and woman a king and queen
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>There was a Great Migration up from Dixieland
>Made the be bop hip hoppin of my heart
>But by the blood / my sainted Daddy's grave / and upon my soul
>Don't sound like nothin I ever seen or knowed
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> Tweedledee Tweedledum
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> Change Compassionate Conservatism
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>No / no / no / I aint seed nonna dat
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>I received a visitation from Jim Hightower
>
>He told me it was all smoke and mirrors/ globaloney
>Maskin forlorn millions / men and women scorned / rottin like corpses /
>cardboard box penthouses / conditions the Humane Society would not tolerate
>for the lowest mangiest mutt / eatin out the dumpsters and the trash / O
>Say
>Can U C how a grateful country dumped the vets on they ass
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>flocks of folk evident yet unseen / fallen faces like rotten logs / long
>lines / here soup kitchens / there food pantries / runnin' outta grub / the
>downsized / the outsourced / the done in / sad as cracked glass cryin alack
>and alas
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>They never figgered they'd end up so bad
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>So many of us one check away from bein' wit' 'em
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>Does E Pluribus Unum mean
>You don't count if you don't have
>A lotta these?
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>Everywhere / in the gray air curdlin and churnin like rotten guts / I seen
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>in the billious waters piss green and rusty / I seen the image / in the
>poison potholes in the ground / I seen the spittin' image / in the streets
>jammed with gass guzzlin' death traps unsafe at any speed it'll soon cost
>$5
>a gallon to feed
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>Jim showed me the Image of the Beast
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>Leprous feet
>Dirty nails rip backs poor oppressed and vulnerable
>Hyenas crooked hind legs
>Arms of King Kong scaly greenbacks
>Claws drippin
>Its the blood of patriots saints and martyrs
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>Papier Mache wings
>Crap on the right one
>B.S on the left
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>A gabillionaire / still drunk from buyin the conventions
>Big glowin' alchoholic nose / busted bloodvessels writhin' in it like
>united
>snakes / sick face pitted like the road to hell .
>A dingy cheap off kilter powder blue wig
>splintered wooden dental plates
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>It claim's it's George Washington
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>Eyes glistenin' / full o' crocodile tears / says it liberated the Death
>Camps when it never even left Stateside while Dubya Dubya 2 was on / Lies/
>I
>say, "What it is?" It answers "Depends on what your definition of "is" is /
>it sneers / scars strikes 'I CANNOT TELL A LIE" blazoned on its forehead /
>cheap imitation zircons / lips pressed to the butt of Big Bidness
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>If God meant for us to vote he would have given us candidates
>We need real deomcracy
>Like they did the other day
>In the streets of Belgrade
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>OOOOOOOOOH that was sweet. OOOOOOOOOOH that was sweet.
>OOOOOOOOOOH that was soooooooo sweet.
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>Newscaster bleats
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>Freedom and Democracy in Action
>Serb Martin Luther Kings and Jesse Jacksons
>We needz em right here
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>Just a check away / from bein' prey
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>Once frightened little mice
>Fed milk to an alley kat
>Hopin' Hopin'
>Hopin' it'd leave 'em alone
>Only to be et up one by one
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>We have the power
>Starve it Starve it
>Starve the Beast
>Jim said
>Of allegiance / Of mindless admiration
>Starve it
>Of soft money / obedience/ of obligation
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>Stand up and be counted
>Let's get up off our behinds
>It's got no place in these United States
>It's just a state of mind
>
>Chris Hayden
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