Bumper Sticker

The evidence is stunning,
Appearing everywhere,
On the screen you watch,
The clothes you wear,
The car you drive,
The message you bear.

Won't the sticker suffice,
Sure it looks right and nice,
But behind it are lies and vice,
You're just afraid to pay the price
For daring to think to look twice.

Your music blares loud
As you ride along,
Head pointed down
While you sing your song.
The sticker will suffice,
You can do no wrong.

Your fingers push the keys
While you steer with careless ease.
You're a patriotic tease.
And when you finally look up from your knees
Your misguided muscles will tense and sieze.

No, don't look now,
You don't have the time,
For the truck of debt, exploitation,
And putrid political slime
Is headed your way quick
With all its dirt and grime.

You're the epitome of ignorance, but you're through.
It truns out you are completely untrue,
Because when one word is red, and the other is blue
Logic says contradiction must fill the sketch you drew,
And the problem is that you never knew.

What do you do now
That your sticker is crushed,
And the word you thought true
Has been reversed and hushed,
You're on your own, and aren't
You the one who said the weak get flushed?

Step back and look around,
Embrace the truth hidden by lies,
Forget the shit they feed your eyes,
Take to the ground left unbound
Byt the restrictive remarks like those
Upon which your 'morals' are wound.

-"Stand up for America! Be American!"
-"Only the Stong Survive"