Poem: DEAD people are DEAD

Ritter, Chris D (rittec@UH2297P01.DAYTONOH.ATTGIS.COM)
Sat, 28 Oct 1995 04:52:18 -0500

DEAD people are DEAD
by christopher ritter

Kick back with Mary Jane
and watch the water sports played
in the way the smoke filters through everything
that calls itself a Generation.

CERTIFIED HERO FOR DISGRACELAND
in lackluster sex appeal
(short hair--sideburns--corduory beret)

Manic Painic Rainbow of Idealism:
sitting cappucino style in Kaldi+s cafe
thinking about the problems of Global Welfare
??IS EVERYBODY GONNA GET STONED TODAY??

Too Punk to Die Too Goth to Care Too Beat to Play
Too Hip to Do Too Grunge to Be Too Jazz to Act
Too Rave to Say: +It+s time to Become the Future.+

Every bit of power you wield is the (S)Word of Action-
Not in the resin of a Haight-Ashbury Prophet
or the fragments of a Seattletilian Shotgun Messiah-

But behind the Idea of why you+ve BECOME.