That's All Folks

Hollywood will glamorise the hideous events surrounding the murder of New Orleans.  We must not let it.  Poor people mustn't die so rich people can reap awards.

Towers fall
planes crash
into a giant eleven
splat!
water eats the world with rain teeth,
the answer my friend?
Cash calls
a billion green dollars
is blowin' in the wind
pouring down like rain
like bombs
billowing
confetti for the rich.
Sea mauls
world stalls
the answer is blowin'
a jazz trumpeter's lungs inflated
a response to the verse
elated
and that wherever it is chorus
fills every cell of every body,
fated and fatigued.
These people aren't CGI
damn!
CGI people don't sing the blues,
soft shoes shuffle like broken canoes
and tap out silent SOS's.
CGI people aren't bodies
floating on bad jazz
that's water distilled from greed
bad jazz
is the devil selling his soul to Hollywood
to make sure he's played by Tom Cruise
in soft shoes
who knows, he might even become the President.
The devil has all the best cartoons.
"I got this great idea"
an exec screams like a trumpet out of time
and tune
"Los Angeles is engulfed by a fireball, yeah
That's actually the moon, yeah
Set on fire by Iranian missiles"

When we forget how to love
we forget how to live.

There's this leading man
designed to save the city
generic
his leading lady has to be pretty
her name smaller than his
pathetic
he has an apartment in Schwarzenegger's
shadow.
Cash calls
waters fall
real people die
really real
not nearly real
not CGI
it's really real poor people
in this disaster movie,
why?
See you on the levy
special effects so vulgar and bright.
Water falls
to remind us that the Old Testament
hasn't the monopoly on biblical.
Perhaps disaster's cyclical.
If only Charlton Heston was really Moses
he could turn around the tide
and split this sea
of red-bloodied bodies
and return them home
or perhaps into roses
there's no place like...
Charlie really nailed that Moses guy down
if only there'd been an eleventh Commandment
"Thou Shalt Not Let A City Drown".
If only Charlton Heston had burned Bush
turned an idiot into bonfire
on "Make America Better Day".
It's a twister Auntie Em, and you were in my dream.

The two 'o's in Hollywood
embedded in Beverley Hills
are boggled and bloated
eyes on a mission
not impossible,
in fact highly probable.
There's 27 million dollars
to pay Denzel Washington
to win an Oscar
it's showbiz unstoppable,
27 million to play a poor man
who's got it hard in soft shoes
perhaps rescued by Stallone
in a supporting role,
"D'ya think Sylvester can sing the blues?"
I taught I taw a puddy tat.
Heroes make money
heroes make news
heroes are uncomplicated and simple.
It's a shame Drew Barrymore
had to grow up
she was great in ET
she was great when we all kneeled
at her Shirley Temple
a shining example to kids in America,
and the end of the world
needs a little girl.
Gary Oldman can be the bad guy
the greedy guy, slight and English
a sibulent shadow who doesn't save lives.
Denzel's tears ripple the toxic water
making it drinkable for a while.
Denzel's tears make the audience smile
and contented,
America cares,
demented.
"We can take what's toxic in that water
and make it a lesser green-billed dollar".
Lesser is more.
The audience roars away
as the mojo works to out-voodoo
Independence Day.
Hollywood murdered America in that
karma crash
Apocalypse wow.
Money howls
a coyote caterwauling
roadrunning to chaos
water still falling
the devil has all the best cartoons.
Wasn't Charlton Heston in Planet Of The Apes?
He doesn't just shoot movies
"It's a mad house, a mad house".

When we forget how to love
we forget how to live.

Towers fall
heroes call
monsters rule the world
a giant eleven
water falls
eating the world with rain-teeth
America up in smoke
it's a twister
New Orleans
That's All Folks!