Pimpin' with the Prezident
It ain't so hard to be a pimp
Just ask George Bush, the wailin' wimp
He'll eat your hamburger today
Then Tuesday promise to repay
On Monday, though, he plans to skip
And leave your kids with bill and tip
He's pimped the troops out walkin' beats
In Baghdad's mean and lethal streets
While he stays safe at home in bed
A nightlight shinin' by his head
He flies into Iraq at night
Then splits before the mornin' light
He takes some promo picture groups
Him feedin' turkey to the troops
Another ersatz plastic bird:
A photo of a smilin' turd
In his big plane he flies around
While troops get hammered on the ground
He pimps out both the girls and boys
To bring in money for his joys
Too bad his need to be reborn
Too good the war bucks kiddie porn
The fanboy fascists jerkin' off
Would never think to bitch or scoff
It ain't their sisters takin' slap
It ain't their brothers catchin' clap
They loved that tale of Monica
Why do they hate America?
It ain't so hard to be a pimp
Just ask George Bush, the smirkin' chimp
He learned about the crime that pays
In voodoo Reaganomics days
With Laffer drawin' fancy curves
On napkins that the waitress serves
Old Ron and Dick and Don saw quick
That deficits would do the trick
Just rob the future; hide the stash
Then cover up by talkin' trash
The sacred military scam
Would kill the ghost of’Vietnam
"Let's coin an urban myth," they thought
"To unlearn all the lessons taught"
"We'll say they had it 'won' for naught,
We expert ones who never fought"
"Their deaths and maimings we can choose
To call a ‘syndrome’ -- we can't lose!"
"Americans are so damn thick
They think of wise as somethin' sick"
But, anyway, this pimpin' pays
You cannot even count the ways
This pimpin', George the Shrub thought fine
As long as he could jump the line
Let better men go off to die
He'd get ahead and learn to fly
He got his picture took in planes
Then disappeared to make some gains
But now, though, he gets custom threads
And public funding for his meds
"It troubles me," he sometimes blurts
When he gets wind of how war hurts
"It must be like that 'poverty'
That mom made sure I'd never see"
Like most stud hampsters, don't you know?
He swaggers like they're hangin' low
With Haliburton writin' checks
Dick don't care how much world George wrecks
Michael Murry, "The Misfortune Teller," Copyright © 2006