Hey! You! or: Recommended reading: ever tried reading your bookcase sideways at three in the morning after an afternoon drinking bacardi and coke (if not maybe you should)? By Andrew Wastling

hey che where are you today? your primark t-shirt passed my way no logo brain-dead! branded cripple-handed sweat shop pay! hey karl where's your snarl? need you here to raise the call! is the grass so green without the wall? hey john the karma's wrong ? need you here to ban the bomb! hey martin where you hiding? need you here skins dividing klan is itchin' for a lynching! hey bob thought your gob caught nixon lying on the job? the dime is a spinning for a rhyming! liberty's now a lightening rod for oppresses sing masses with Catholic torture squads! hey robeson jericho's floating? need your voice sweet chariots rising joshua hears your people crying!

hey woody where you buddy? mccarthy's dead but troops wear hoodies prison guards electrifying we need your guitar sanctifying the wine is ripening for a spiking! the bible belt needs crucifying! hey malcom where you gone? need black cross on ballot box! a million votes have just been lost the scum is rising to the top! hey janis feed the panic mercedes benz is economic! hey pancho burn the panzers! the oil belongs to hugo chavez ! hey joseph hopes not dead the sunsets blazing deepest red ! hey regis shopping precincts designer fleas spit fashion clichés hey oscar its raining harder angry brigades are pissed on larger ! hey mahatma for what its worth one day the meek will inherit the earth.

hey chaplin where you filming? the tramp's mainlining down my alley! hey jim where you bin? acids burning dolphins fins! hey jimi purple slim the pigs still throw the tear gas in! hey joe what do you know? junkies drown in overflows! hey lev what you said was kinda picking at the head. hey you bertolt brecht mother courage smack knifed arturo ui's intellect! hey lang nazi dammed metropolis is now a traffic jam! hey jesus when i'm strung up i sing jerusalem in the pub! hey strummer music's drummer we need a leader not a dummer!

hey aneurin rhondda's spires need a choir not methadone blinding! hey owen ravens snowing is merlin sleeping in the ruin? hey shelly anarchists slumber dumb hunger thundered in their bellies! hey siegfried slaughtered doomed fox mustard gassed beneath the moon! hey you dario friend or foe? maniac's sure the gestapo knows! hey michael poor want moore! françois truffaut burns alone! moaning drones consumer cloned blood and bone! who they can not silence they can never own!

hey you! our call up due the futures down to me and you! resist celebrity culture mediocrity! crap list careerist wish list zero's! become a dissenting non-consumer and choose your heroes from the black list!

Copyright ©  Andrew Wastling 2008

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