What I Want Right Now

I want to hear a sad, sad song

about how much love hurts even when it's good

I want to watch a movie

where bad guys die just like they should

I want to read a book

that makes me think magic is real

I want to just do something

where I still like what I feel.

I want to teach a class

that can make them understand

that love and hope and joy and feathers

are the safest place to land.

I want to write an article

that will clear up all this mud

and cure this affluenza

that is coursing through their blood.

I want to watch the sunset

and feel the warmth I used to feel

I want to go to Wal-Mart

and not feel the need to steal.

I want to taste my dinner

and know that it's enough

I want to stand up to my captors

and show them I am tough.

I want a glass of poison

that will kill me for a while

and wake me when the pain is gone

and pleasure is in style.

I want a gun that shoots the evil

but leaves all the good in place.

I want a spaceship with a harem

to have orgies out in space

I want a knife made out of money

So I can cut the sky

And watch it bleed out sunshine

I'll laugh and watch it die.

I want hypnotic powers

from puke-green jewel that binds

all those who see it to me

so I control their minds

I want to rule the world

I want to make the rules

I want to be in charge

I want to stop the fools

I want a the power of the bomb

and the power of the purse.

I want to make things better

But I would make them worse.

1/30/2009