Cowboys in a spaceship 
The crowd noise is wasted 
Women take pics so they can seem naked 
Guys tell jokes so they can see 'em naked 
Church ladies vote what they perceive sacred 
Proposition hatred 
Phosphorous in riverbeds 
Billion dollars spilled to fill esophagus with cigarettes 
Philosophers plots to maul nations out of shock and awe 
Generation of ideas 
Children who won't talk at all 
Profits fall 
Chalk on walls 
Years spent on prison cells 
Next to die 
Living hell 
His twelve peers didn't exercise their privilege well 
Babies raised through the glass 
Bullets at the border war games take a stab 
Coordinate who can pass like a paper bag 
Minutes on an internet pornpage fornicate make her gag 
What's the damage for the neighbor tagged by the amateur? 
Water blast erase the trace of the canisters 
Waterpath took the stairways left the banister 
Washed over premises turned up percentages 
Lost under sludge lots of revised sentences 
Defense budgets padded by sandbags and sandwiches 

Wasted 

Drag this baggage 
Hold this Damage 
Cope the best that we can manage 
Want solutions 
Needs new standards 
Cry our beauty from the ashes 
To do list throw away mail go buy envelopes 
Who's this coulda-been-Rhodes'-Scholar-centerfold 
Every day's a resource to be sure 
Its integral to rebirth from t-shirts to minerals 
The ward's filthy 
Search for another light in town 
Nobody else home 
Can't carry their same load 
But I feel guilty like the flight went down 
And my cell phone wasn't on airplane mode 
Soy-based newsprint 
Blackmarket foodstamps 
Poison in the Pete moss 
Suffocated beatbox 
B-boys in detox 
Corrugated cardboard 
Lockheed lobbyists floor debating star wars 
Yeast and fungi 
Springtails ants and nematodes 
Sawdust yellowcake 
Organics decompose 
Bokashi EM-inoculated wheat bran 
Toxic compounds broken down under coffee ground 
Ancient carcasses in the sphagnum lost and found 
Empty cartridges from a magnum 
Tossed into agricultural lime rockflour and seaweed meal 
Bioremediate man-made molecules 

Wasted 

Ashes to eggshells 
Woodchips to whiskers 
Anything we can mess up we can fix up 
Sword to plowshare 
Soiled from beneath the trash 
Detroit red into El-Hajj Malik Shabazz 
Oildrum to steelpan 
Prisoner to Gramsci 
Rose from the concrete 
Reverse the flows of the Ponzi schemes 
Cripwalk to a conscious beat 
Hip-hop is a compost heap 
Gangsters to gardeners 
Rivals into partners 
Fanatics to reformers 
Felons into farmers 
Inmates to fathers of innercity scholars 
Poptart to salad 
Teens into college 
Lawns into restaurants 
Centerfold models to artists 
Police abuse to catharsis 
Street sergeants into peace departments 
Thousand dollar bills to green for all markets 
Backlots to blacktops and cashcrops for have nots 
Metal into scrap shops 
Jobs for the cast-offs 
Crackspots into earthships for urban astronauts 
Reservation into reservoir 
Of wisdom we used to know 
Use the whole animal 
Landfill to future home 
Pacifist guerrillas to bazooka zones 
Black hawks to attics 
C-130's to superdome 
Newborns on computerphones 
So the smile's not wasted