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Captives of the Violent Screen
Captives of the Violent Screen
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So you think you’re free
But then you tune into me
And trade your clarity
For my insanity
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While you perceive one caption
At a time you ask no questions
I am yourTV god
And you sit there consuming
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And consumed
As your watching me I’m watching you
Captives of violent screen stimuli for the war machines
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Young at heart impulsive minds
I see them in the candy stores
With there sugar sweet smiles
I see them in the theaters
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Laughing running feeling free
I see them in the parks with there
Machine gun counter parts
Pulling the trigger
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Of make believe death
There youngness on a fine line with madness
And then they arise to sip one more dose of time
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They grab there bowels and cereals
And its on to the channels there gods
To get them on their way
And as the milk pours on
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Snap crackle rata tat tat
They sit mesmerized peering through dizzy land eyes
As the shown the beauties of violence and war
Then a sound is at the door
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Mother is home
As she walks in
And says “how are my troops today”?
This piece was quoted to Jane Fonda while I was carrying her bags out to the waiting limo, to take her
to the airport after doing at talk for a women’s group at the El Dorado hotel in Santa Fe NM.
Earlier that day while working at the hotel I ran into a friend I had not seen for a while
She told me that she had brought Jane Fonda to do a talk, I mentioned that I would like
To meet her, being a Viet Nam vet I felt she had gotten a bad rap during the war.
I meet them both coming out of the elevator, my friend introduced me and mentioned
That I was a poet Jane said can you quote me a piece as the piece came to its final
I opened the door to the limo she looked at me and said “What a send off”! I said “bye Jane”.
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