Where does one draw the line,
Between the faulty and the fine?
Between the inside and the out?
Between the silence and the shout?
Is your public privative of something?
You say religion is something.
A personal thing,
A private thing,
And important thing,
Well that's something.
Well?
You say politics is plural,
Urban and rural,
By your construal,
I'll sit on a stool,
Off in the corner. . .for
I can't grasp the grammar
Because you've cornered the market--
Place of ideas,
Quarry of pleas,
Identities seized,
Ruptured, now bleeding,
Is anyone heeding?
Feeding some frenzy,
of words without meaning.
What is meaning?
What is truth?
With Pilate as co-pilot,
A light gets extinguished,
Alright already, steady, steady,
Rows along this ship of state,
O what a state we're in
for it.
I'll be your President,
No matter I'm Catholic.
I'll be your Governor,
No matter I'm Catholic.
I'll be your representative,
Because God doesn't play politics,
Or haven't you heard?
But you do play--well played,
Hands on; man on man; bloody hell,
Well?
If God is God over all,
(with liberty and justice for)
Does it make a difference at all,
(indivisible, with)
That I'm of one mind,
(under God)
And you're of another,
(one nation)
Brother to brother,
(pledge allegiance)
Fighting each other,
(pledge allegiance)
Without really fighting at all,
(pledge allegiance)
Or isn't that just a stall,
(with liberty and justice for)
A shortfall, free for,
(all)
But really only for the one,
(nation)
Who plays the game so well,
(under God)
Well?
So where do you draw the mark,
In the light, or a shot in the dark?
Who holds your pledge of allegiance,
Really?
Why not put your foot down (in your mouth),
And take your money (you're banking on it),
If you haven't thrown up your hands,
Exasperated in a fury of ignorance,
With impotence,
Retreating into externals,
The kernels of wisdom aside,
Brushed aside,
Cast aside,
Left aside,
On a mountain road going down to Jerusalem.
Who shall rescue what is perishing?
Who shall save what is dying?
Jesus man, so some say,
If they only knew,
Then maybe we all could do,
that something.
Well?
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