and thankless job
but as they say
somebody's got to do it
challenging
the status quo
tension so thick
I can't maintain civility
(I could but I don't want to)
so I leave
having a last word
unsaid
as ordinary people
lead lives entrenched
in mainstream convention
pulled out of revelry by a wrong number
a telephone sound
ringing
ringing
ringing
pavlovian response
wants protests to color inside the lines
we attended the Malcolm X school of civil disobedience
and we remember Viet Nam
dramatic conditions
so unconventional we want to call it anything
but its name...
as we are looked down upon
yet
up to
in admiration performing
a loose definition as is
expected
what we maladroitly assume
is our right to an opinion
to be told yet again
our message is off point
and doesnt belong in this arena
