Rigamorole

 

Caitlin signs a Nike deal

Paid for by layoff largesse

Keep the three-ring Circus going 

Trump as Barker is the best

There are now more sick and dying

Than there ever were before

This world war comes with attrition 

While they sell us “less is more”

Eat your breakfast for your dinner

Wear a dress and drink your beer

Shave your legs at Planet Fitness 

Move the freak show over here

Drive your pastel-colored pickup

More technology than before

Being kidnapped by surveillance

And also locked inside their doors

Run away and they will find you

Or maybe drive you through a wall

Your steering wheel has been abandoned

Accelerate the next fireball

Spell of Hollywood is breaking

Dying dreams beneath the stars

Politicians replicating

Impromptu acting takes them far

Herd us into their Depression

Starve us out and shoot us down

No respect for our arrangement 

When we’re sleeping on the ground

What you need to feed a monster 

Is compliance without thought

Draw your line and don’t be taken

Never let your soul be bought