Do not
Do not pretend to care
Don’t you dare
Pretend to care
Bloated blaggart
Yacht-boated braggart
Coward to the nth degree
Weasel words and wobble words
All about the free
A well-rehearséd fantasy
Your suit and tie and fancy shoe
They show in fact, what’s really you
Campaign cash ill-promised gold
Yours a story centuries old
Do not pretend to care
Don’t you dare
Don’t you dare pretend to care
You’re owned lock, stock, and barrel
By a foreign funded PAC
By a putrid agent gone quite feral.
And all you do is yack yack yack
Your tongue is forked
Your belly porked
Your heart is corked
Do not pretend you really care
Do not presume
Do not resume
Your play of tears
Across the years
Your promises of thought
Your promises of prayer
When all you do is nought
Do not pretend you really care
The powder burns upon your sleeves
Your blood-stained lips and pasty face
Your utter lack of human grace
You care much more for bills in sheaves
Than children dying day by day
You sit & munch on curds and whey
Do not pretend to care
Don’t you dare
Don’t you dare pretend to care
A coward’s coward’s coward
There’s nothing more untoward
Than a mealy-mouldy turtle
You contemplate an inch high hurdle
You remain too yellow to leap
You remain too sick and cheap
You nibble your crumpet
You cheat and lie to grease your palm
Dead shark eyes your jowls are calm
Do not pretend you care
Do not pretend you care
Everyone’s bones grow eventually bare
Long after life so long as there are eyes to see
Your name will live in infamy
So long as there is one last shred
Of humanity
Or memory
Uncountable deaths of kids are clearly on your head
You soullessly stand in halls of power
Do nothing but whine at the ultimate hour
Watching children ripped apart
While you play-act your well-learned part
A thousand horses and then the cart
Your well-practiced lines of lies
Mumbo jumbo mumbled and tumbled
While another innocent dies
Another opportunity bumbled
Another step stumbled
Do not pretend to care
Don’t you dare
Pretend to care
Just as a cancerous cell
Pretends to be well
So too do you
Pretending all the while
Wearing your dead-eyed smile
Pointing fingers everywhere
Fingers pointed everywhere
Unarmed teachers
Dearth of preachers
“Let’s re-make schools be just like prisons
Let’s give every teacher a heavy gun!
Let’s make school shootings loads more fun”
Do not
Do not
Do not pretend
Do not dare
Do not dare to pretend you care
Do not dare to pretend you care
The NRA has bought a beach-
Head, impossible to reach
The beaches sing each to each
Putin thinks that we will all sit calmly by
And eat our peach
Sand and all
While children die and checks get cashed
Our future trashed
Bigger yachts are shipped and shined
Bigger mansions bought and sold
Bigger wads of cash are rolled
Bigger steaks are grilled and dined
Do not pretend
Do not pretend you care
Do not dare
Do not dare
Do not send thought
You’re already bought
Do not send prayer
And do not dare
To pretend to care
petersironwood 