Letter for Gorky ©2011 illicitizen
I’ve got a letter for Mr Gorky.
We had a meeting in the dark.
You artists are irresponsible. We can’t trust you to bear weight.
You’re always articulating and progressing postulates.
moving an agenda isn’t quite an honest living.
why don’t you go to work and keep your family off of welfare?
moving on your merits isn’t fair to all the others.
why don’t you speak more plainly and get with the program?
there’s a problem in McComb down at the woolworth’s
some colored boys want service and they think this is a free country
if he keeps giving me lip I’ll hand them a new martyr
Do you stupid bastards really think your safer now being smarter?
we can tell that you’re weary
we won’t leave you alone
watch us enhance your entropy
we are everything that you own.
We’ve got a message for Dalton Trumbo
We had a meeting on the hill.
All unfriendly witnesses will be coerced to testify.
If you don’t get in line you’ll find it difficult. Difficult to survive.
Moving in your circles gets easier betrayal.
Why don’t you get a trade and quit agitating workers?
We could find a place for you if you could show some loyalty.
Why don’t you take an oath and show us all how smart you are?
There’s some faggot up on Castro who thinks he is the Mayor.
If he keeps on pushing boundaries we’ll synthesize a martyr.
We can’t tell the difference, we treat you all unfair.
Do you stupid bastards still think you’re safer being smarter?
we can tell that you’re weary
we won’t leave you alone
watch us enhance your entropy
we are everything that you own.
I’ve got a cable for Bradley Manning
But he’s not getting mail off of the wire.
Enemies are transient in time, geography
We’ve thrown a party under the bus
Making up proscriptions gets weaker by the instance
Geronimo has proven that we’re doomed as a species
The view from here is stunning, you can almost see them running
Just keep it to yourself or we’ll make you seem less cunning
We’ll engineer a way out, just like the DC Madame
Another martyr on the pile when we let you at him
That Okie kid in Quantico leaves questions that are harder
Do you stupid bastards really think you’re safer now being smarter?
we can tell that you’re weary
we won’t leave you alone
watch us enhance your entropy
we are everything that you own.
