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We did't fight it, we'd stay up all night with Rocky and forties we were the university brats --cocksure and obtuse. And coming home, we catch the tether and draw ourselves to the icebox and X box and television. Discuss the makes of cars and the deer we hit with them. And i couldn't spell i had been so quiet, the tide pulled out the filthy watershed of the shopping malls and strip malls and capitol mall--we ran to see where it had all gone. We wondered because it was our job to think what we were supposed to think (i think I heard it and so i came outside and saw it) and all of the shit that we had let sit rared up huge and swept us all away.

Well CNN and NBC, all they ever showed to me were amber waves of grain of grain of grain
growing tall to block the view the of pain we've that been causing as we dulled our lives away.
Sleeping in the amber waves of grain.

We were too late to affect the debate and now we're so sorry to soldiers and women; to Jesus and Vishnu, the Buddha, the budget, to Iraq and Iran and elementary schools. We were fools and we fell for partisan bull shit and now we're all hated and mostly deserve it. Complacent and lazy and warm and overfed--Managua has seen us shoot their families dead. In the streets. In the name of money to run our SUVs with last of the oil. The Japanese work harder than us and we hate that. We're sorry.

And all they ever showed to me were amber waves of grain of grain of grain, not the view of the pain we've been causing
without even knowing--without even trying to know--as we dulled our lives away in the amber waves of grain. Drowning in the amber waves of grain.