With apologies to Bob Dylan.
Come gather ‘round people
Wherever you roam
And submit to what the voters
Around you have sown
And accept it that soon
You’ll do nothing but moan
Is Democracy really worth savin.’
Just watch more TV
Or drink or get stoned
For the times they are a-changin.’
Come billionaires and grifters
Who prophesize and spin
We’ll enrich ourselves further
This chance won’t come again
With im’grants and race
Our strategy will win
‘Cause that’s who Fox News will be blamin.’
And the winner now
Will be always to win
For the Guilded Age we are re-claimin.’
Come senators, congressmen
To one knee you must fall
Our king by decree
Will rule us one and all
And President Zelensky
We won’t take your call
Putin’s blameless the battle’s still ragin.’
It’s with dictators and murderers
We’ll proudly stand tall
For the far right we will be paradin.’
Scum deep state do-gooders
Throughout the land
Feel free to criticize
You can all go pound sand
Your hateful agencies
Are now ours to command
For some taxpayers have been complainin.’
Firing the essential
Is just part of the plan
And we’ll do so without explainin.’
The idiot wind
In the Capitol it blows
To tear down and destroy
Is the path that we chose
What we can’t legislate
We’ll accomplish with DOGE
The order is rapidly evaporatin.’
And disorder’s ragin’
Like a loose fire hose
For the times they are a-changin.’
Bill Faller
Temple