This Side of the Rainbow

After my cootie shot, I was... no longer sober, and I put on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album. I thought of Dorothy with her shoes and how her footsteps match with the Pink Floyd songs' rhythms... And we've wondered so much about the other side of the rainbow, what about... This Side of the Rainbow

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In our neon cities

(built with yellow bricks

of foreign soil's turmoil

on top a foundation

of sweatshop children's future

second class citizen's silence)

Surgeons sliced and spliced

Perfect Dorothies with silver

silicone and swarthy morphine

under the shallow lies of

static plastic beauty

Swarms of Tin Men trudged on

Refueled with calorie free garbage

Embedded entertainment for

      cardiac replacement

Herds of Frightened Lions plowed on

roared over our RELAPSE into the gambling

of the Wealth of our Nation

Imagined fiat currency for

      mock prosperity

Flocks of Braindead Scarecrows toiled on,

Redefining and defiling the constitution

Eloping with lies and corruption

and defecating

on the peasants' rights!

The Great Wizard of America then declared

an illuminated emerald epoch

with chimerical campaign slogans

functioning purely upon

a fantastically fanatical fan base

He then played

reverse Robin-hood

All the while

pairs of lovely

scarlet satirical slippers

await unearthing after

our deliverance from incarceration

rebirth of Emancipation.