Equality

All people are equal, it’s said—

That’s a lie that fucks with your head,

Because, being frank,

We’ve always had rank,

And will till we’re equally dead. 

We Will All Go Together When We Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs

We’ll all go together when we go,

But today there’s more options, we know:

Different horses we’ll ride

To the other side,

But we’ll all go together when we go.

Conquest won’t be our last feat,

‘Cause the heat’s something we cannot beat:

Not just temperature factors,

But busted reactors—

Our fate’s set in hard white concrete.

Famine’s the next thing we’ll greet

Without foods like wheat and red meat;

When there’s no more to carve

From each other, we’ll starve:

We can’t live without something to eat.

War gives a chance to mistreat

Each other with horror complete;

The future looks black,

And there’s no turning back,

Though we’re headed for certain defeat.

Death, from his Lehrer’s come to mow:

We’re already pale and laid low;

There’s more ways that I’ve missed,

But you’re getting the gist—

We’ll all go together when we go. 

Chess

Resigned

When our game’s in a hopeless bind

And we find out we’re too far behind—

That we’ve no more to bring,

And we can’t win this thing—

It’s time for becoming resigned.

When we’ve wrung out all we can wring,

There’s an action that no one should ding:

We make up our mind

That, with all things combined,

It’s time to tip over the king.

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Chessboard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem

Doubling going sequential

Displays extinction potential,

Where multiple factors—

Like heat and reactors—

Also go exponential.

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Make Chess, Not War

Chess is like war, it’s been said:

You fight until one of you’s dead,

But beating the king

Isn’t really my thing,

So I’m beating the bishop instead.

Salon de Doom

These days, the Salon de Doom

Is the net’s most cutting edge room,

Where we get so awake

That we can’t help but make

Boom-boom in our Fruit of the Loom. 

Details, Details

There’s two ways to use every threat

Of extinction to get less upset:

The first is to learn,

So you can discern

What’s important, and what not to sweat.

Learning is useful—you bet!

It can help you remember, and yet,

Getting lost in detail

Of the ways we will fail

Can also be used to forget.

H/T: Tom at NBL

Marius the Giraffe

Racial Profiling

On account of its DNA,

A giraffe was killed; what can I say?

Bullshitting’s fine,

But the bottom line

Is they’ll all be dead soon anyway.

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Better Off Dead

Perhaps it would fill you with rage

To live your whole life in a cage

Or at least, I would bet

That you’d not get upset

If you never reached an old age.

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Marius

Caged life can’t be good for a calf,

Or actually, any giraffe;

So even a bier

Might be better than here—

I hope so, on his behalf.

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You Know What’s Really Funny?

The zoo’s one of those foundations

To “help” DNA mutations;

What they don’t yet see

Is there’s not going to be

Any future generations.

Bob Dylan at the Super Bowl

My Superbowl Commercial, by Bob Dylan

My old values now are estranged,

So what’s real has been rearranged:

Got to Hollywood,

And I’m doing good—

I used to care, but things have changed.

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Bob Dylan, Voice of a Generation

I thought that he meant what he said,

So I let him get into my head;

But it turns out his stance

Was just song and dance—

Oh well, pretty soon we’ll be dead.

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Who Says We Won’t Get Fooled Again

It took me a long time, and then

I thought that I saw Dylan’s Zen,

But his clever words

Were just shined up turds;

I’m a fucking idiot again.

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Sellout

Again the world’s biggest rock star

Insincerely strums his guitar;

But if you believe,

You’re too fucking naive,

And you’ll own some piece of shit car.

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Shtick

The words in a Bob Dylan song

Might talk about what’s right and wrong,

But talking the talk

Isn’t walking the walk:

It was nothing but shtick all along.

My Evacuation Plan

I’ve already planned in advance

What to do in a doom circumstance—

My very first chore:

Make the toilet before

I evacuate into my pants. 

Keystone XL

Looks like they’re going to say

It won’t make a difference, but hey,

The government’s view

Is actually true—

We’re totally fucked anyway.