Flip the switch hit the button turn the dial open the floodgates and out it comes washing over too fast blurring bleeding exceeding blinding deafening numbing stumbling to find meaning entertainment news opinion fact lies pleas sick twisted happy sad disorientated always mad bombs votes allah u ackbar death to America lead in toys rising prices crippling vices and still struggling for shelter food clothing cell phone bills self determination extermination ethnic picnic amending the constitution dissolving institutions earthquakes floods famines celebrity marriages big brother is watching you watching them filming the show no one wants to see step right up your first try is free Africa is where black folk come from says mother baking the pie for the baseball game on the Lord's day and for the price of a cup of coffee you too can save the starving aristocrats in their crystal squalor filter the information sift for facts in the lukewarm halfbaked maximumsecuritycompoundwords anti-hyphenated rhetoric of isms and ocracies hypocrisies never exposed buried in bubble gum popping corn glitter pump action figures karate chop crying for clarity without an optometrist prescription locked elbow salute to the ever lasting light bulb three for a dollar sign the dotted line and you too can live beyond your means in the house of your dreams screaming without a mouth Beethoven was deaf what's up with that gangster rap with a pair of tap shoes jazz blues blood for money get a cookie and juice all you need is to boost the noose one more fold of bold cold old mold and it practically cleans itself still filtering down but it moves too fast to catch the last laugh it's funny to think pour him a drink pilgrim poisoning the watering hole forget the cure to sanity donate every year autistic deer telethon night of a thousand untalented comedians parading for the ratings and the critics get panned loyalty to brand is hard without monopolies too many choices too much to think about too much freedom please daddy tell me what to do who to vote for where to bomb what to wear how to speak why to care when to pray how to tie my shoes and gas the choose life and pick up sticks and drink your booze when he's not home it's all too much under the covers pillow soaked in tears as you waste your years taking time to find yourself in Europe wake up put up shut up only the strong survive pass on the genes light the torch fire of sun royal legacy empires undone everybody is suffering and I feel great hire the girl next door to walk the dog around the block squash tournament garbage day promotions pay raise magazine subscriptions renewed plant a tree drill for crude kids in school wife in kitchen gun in closet clip on tie on long neck lager a o k in the middle of the day try fail let it wash over let it saturate stimulate strangulate information in one ear and out the mouth brain dead whole wheat bread I feel nothing apathy is the cure close the gates and forget all you've learned life is a piece of cake.