Your Next Bold Move

coming of age during the plague
 of reagan and bush
 watching capitalism gun down democracy
 it had this funny effect on me
 I guess
 I am cancer
 I am HIV
 and I am down at the blue jesus
 blue cross hospital
 just lookin' up from my pillow
 feeling blessed
 and the mighty multinationals
 have monopolized the oxygen
 so it's as easy as breathing
 for us all to participate
 yes they're buying and selling
 off shares of air
 and you know it's all around you
 but it's hard to point and say "there"
 so you just sit on your hands
 and quietly contemplate
 your next bold move
 the next thing you're gonna have to prove
 to yourself
 what a waste of thumbs that are opposable
 to make machines that are disposable
 and sell them to seagulls flying in circles
 around one big right wing
 yes, the left wing was broken long ago
 by the slingshot of cointelpro
 and now it's so hard to have faith in
 anything
 especially your next bold move
 or the next thing you're gonna need to prove
 to yourself
 you want to track each trickle
 back to its source
 and then scream up the faucet
 'til your face is hoarse
 cuz you're surrounded by a world's worth
 of things you just can't excuse
 but you've got the hard cough of a chain smoker
 and you're at the arctic circle playing strip poker
 and it's getting colder and colder
 everytime you lose
 so go ahead
 make your next bold move
 tell us
 what's the next thing you're gonna have to prove
 to yourself