America, Where You From?

Just where are you coming from America?
You want me to applaud the victory
of your monster robots
over the men in the sand?
The blood in the sand tells me
there really were men in the sand.
Your video transformer chainsaw war
shows me those aren't really men any more
flying around in your massacre machines.
Could this have been what you
were trying to show me by any chance?
Where's your head at?

Where have you been America?
Show me your brave frontier.
That's a lousy choice for a catchword.
A word to conjure by, because you keep
people ignorant of what the word means.
A frontier person violated the law
against exploiting other people.
The frontier was the watershed,
the highest mountain ridgeline.
Past that line and you were violating
someone else's rights.
Which of your legends makes that clear?

What have you done America?
Proud day for you,
independent from the King.
What was that reason again?
Wasn't the biggest reason
for getting rid of the King
just to erase the frontier line
so you could plunder your neighbors?

Did somebody see you America?
Ever hear of the Cumberland Republic?
The Franklin Republic? Galvez Republic?
The Blue Ridge republic? Gayoso Republic?
The West Florida republic? Republic of Haïti?
The Yucatan Republic? Republic of Cartagena?
Just what was your policy on witnesses?
Do ask that question of the Cherokee Republic.
The answer will be most illuminating.

What did you say America?
Did you fight a civil war just to prove
nobody ever gets out of the American
genocide conspiracy alive?
Oh, of course, you freed the slaves.
Imagine anyone forgetting that.
That war must have had nothing
to do with Native people.
Native people fought that war for decades.
Yo, Black, you sure all that
was about your chains?

I came here to talk about Vietnam.
This time, I didn't even know it.
Let's get this right for once,
just who do you think you are America?

I came here to talk about Nuremburg trials.
This is the crowning achievement of your law,
you can hang a few dozen old men,
only by using ex post facto laws,
retroactively applied? How smooth.

I came here to talk about marijuana.
Among the oldest religious relics found
as type markers of cultures
are items of paraphanelia
to smoke marijuana.
So you won't allow religious freedom
to your pot smokers?
Because it can't be religion?

I came here to talk about money.
It's against the law to try to abstain.
Will you explain the religious ramifications?

I came here to talk about trees.
What is the total mass of living wood?
How much of that is the substance of dryads?

I came here to talk about carbon.
Oh, you mean to do something about the weather?
Does that mean when all the oil's burned?
See, it's impossible to burn all the oil,
for the Earth will be a sterile autoclave
just before you can get around to that.
This indicates a cognitive disorder.

America is no longer able
to deal with sharp questions.
It's a matter of senility.
The decision structures are degraded by age,
until they are no longer able to respond properly.
The recommendation is to retire this machinery.