youth of america, where is your outrage?

Youth of America,
where is your outrage ?
now that all the punks
have grown.
and
the new guard
moshes couches to
play lists
of Avril and

where is that nineteen
seventy nine ?
where is your
Bad Brains, Minor Threat
your Jello?

they were staring over the horizon
when i last saw the documentary
wishing Actors would stay actors
instead of trickling down on us

they were standing in the rain
black purple and blue
red gold and green
and by '86 were shouting in the district streets;
IMPEACH BUSH as the country married
drug money to gun running,
and made heroes of mass murderers.

Youth of Today,
where is your Black
Panther Party,
keeping Big Brother
off your corner,
feeding children and
arming them with
power: knowledge
reminding the nation
that it begins with
one.
where is Marcus Garvey
Dick Gregory, the Doctor.
would you follow them
if they went today?

Youth of Today,
where are your
tent cities
as unemployment soars
to all time highs
and the price of gas
is manipulated like
diamonds
to keep us moving just enough
to keep the executive
pocket book swelling;

instead of riding the play
stations and the x
boxes....what if the
unemployed guitar heroes
set up their tents on the White House lawn,
and waited for something to do?

youth of today
where are your rastas
your punks
your community leaders
machine workers
your teachers.
where are your moms and dads
when you need a kick
in the ass,
where are the dj's
the cooks
the junkies
the squirrels the slimes

WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOUR RAMONES
sex pistols
sly and robbie
AND WOULD YOU LISTEN TO ANOTHER
BOB MARLEY
-dylan, cummings, frost
morrison,krs,chuck D...
could you turn the light
inside on
one more time.
can you draw upon that hindsight
and do a better job
taking this place apart
than your leaders have,
or will you watch it on
you tube?
NOW PLAYING:
genocide
poverty
child exploitation
piracy
extortion
cheating dancing and singing
to a host of bored humans
worldwide. that just keep
running themselves into trees
and ditches, banging their adolescence
on dope and hand rails
for the amusement of their friends
-and for lack of anything better
to be.
the jails have gotten more
comfortable,
there's vitamin water in the fridge,
wanna go skate?
nah, it's too hot outside.

i ain't saying that a little
organized riot
once and a while
will improve your sex life,
AND make you richer.....
but i ain't NOT saying it either.
hey youth,
where can i find that high that
makes it better?

where can i find
that nepenthe