Disclaimer: I just wanted to say "Thank you" to you guys. To all the people that voted, all the people on this board that got interested in politics, read-up, debated, argued, insulted, because this is what ******* democracy is all about. In some countries, we'd get arrested and put in jail for doing that.
So I wrote you a little poem, because I think it's a vastly under-utilised form of expression in this day and age, and it's kinda cute. Yes I know, the poem itself sucks, and sometimes it doesn't even rhyme, or ha number os syllables, but ***** you guys, I'm not a poet and I'm hungover.
Now GFYs, my American friends.
It's a huge little planet,
that we're all living on,
Like a ship, or a comet,
in space, on the ocean.
And yes, it's sometimes hard,
To find some common ground,
In the deafening sound,
Amidst all the retards.
My grand-pa had a brother,
A resistance fighter,
During World War Two,
Wasn't even a Jew,
But he fought, and he hid,
That man I've never seen,
When he was caught, and killed,
He'd just turned seventeen.
My grand-pa used to tell me,
"The world's a fucked-up place,
I've seen kids, believe me,
Hung with their own shoelace.
And when we were all locked,
In the heart of darkness,
The one country that rocked,
Was the United States."
Maybe I'm paraphrasing,
But I know what he meant,
And when I get a kid,
I'll tell him the same thing.
I know, there's slavery,
There is Bush, there's Cheney,
There's the Native Indians,
And hardcore religion.
But we all do mistakes,
And we all do fuck-ups,
Those stupid nation-states,
With flags on pick-up trucks.
Yet there's that little thing,
We call democracy,
Sometimes it's stupidly,
Annoying, frustrating,
But when we're electing,
For a day, we're the King,
In both of our countries,
Revolutionaries.
This poem kinda sucks,
Some will think it's *********
But it comes from the heart,
And I guess that's a start.
So thanks to all you voters,
The lefties, right-wingers,
The commies, the fascists,
Constitutionalists.
And thanks for all the rest,
The music, NOFX,
The movies, the culture,
The **** i grew up with, as a French teenager.
And thanks for Obama,
The Marxist Messiah,
And thanks for two world wars,
For dyin' on foreign shores.