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