Obama 08 Song by John Mayer

Obama 08 Song by John Mayer Poem Obama wrote in High School

OLD MAN

I saw an old forgotten man
On an old, forgotten road
staggering and numb
pulls out forgotten dignity from under his flaking coat,
And walks a straight line along the crooked world.


POP

Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken
In, sprinkled with ashes,
Pop switches channels, takes another
Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks
What to do with me, a green young man
Who fails to consider the
Flim and flam of the world, since
Things have been easy for me;
I stare hard at his face, a stare
That deflects off his brow;
I'm sure he's unaware of his
Dark, watery eyes, that
Glance in different directions,
And his slow, unwelcome twitches,
Fail to pass.
I listen, nod,
Listen, open, till I cling to his pale,
Beige T-shirt, yelling,
Yelling in his ears, that hang
With heavy lobes, but he's still telling
His joke, so I ask why
He's so unhappy, to which he replies...
But I don't care anymore, cause
He took too damn long, and from
Under my seat, I pull out the
Mirror I've been saving; I'm laughing,
Laughing loud, the blood rushing from his face
To mine, as he grows small,
A spot in my brain, something
That may be squeezed out, like a
Watermelon seed between
Two fingers.
Pop takes another shot, neat,
Points out the same amber
Stain on his shorts that I've got on mine, and
Makes me smell his smell, coming
From me; he switches channels, recites an old poem
He wrote before his mother died,
Stands, shouts, and asks
For a hug, as I shink*, my
Arms barely reaching around
His thick, oily neck, and his broad back; 'cause
I see my face, framed within
Pop's black-framed glasses
And know he's laughing too.




UNDERGROUND

Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.

*May be typo

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Obama
• John
• Mayer
• 08

[elbraymundo]

guess what all you political angries?

i vote john mayer

[blinklover2]

Communism is proven to not work....it never has and it never will. Read the book animal farm. or at least watch the moive. It takes the basic idea of communism and puts it to a story with animals. You can't give everyone the same amount of money and for jobs upon them.....everyone deserves what they earn....

[letloverule931]

John Mayer for President.

[alCIAdadidit]

Actually, he's a Ron Paul supporter now..

[fuzzel65]

@blinklover2 Hate to point out that that's not really the point of animal farm. If anything Orwell was in favour of an egalitarian revolution. Animalr farm is really just a metaphor of the soviet revolution in Russia and was mainly aimed at criticising Stalin's corruption and criticising the pepople of Russia for not chuckiing him (and indeed, everyother corrupt leader) out when they had the chance.

[dm7grade]

Obummer



[djbot]

@andoverjag16 also went to occidental

[djbot]

@carpenter1234567890 first off growing the government isn't proper grammar, second of all your country is worthless, you cant even make all those french people speak english; they burn canadian flags. also your country is only good for its cheap prescription drugs. and "growing the government" clearly means increasing its size. so if you meant something else, you should specify

[djbot]

@amandypup92 im not a big fan of obama, but... your high school econ class should have taught you that the president has nothing to do with the economy. or the national debt

[amandypup92]

Just wait a year and the democrats will finally see the huge mistake they made by choosing Obama a the President. We are 700 billion dollars in debt and he hasn't done anything about it, in fact he's making it worse. We are losing the freedoms this country was made on. If you're not terrified of The Obama administration, you're not paying any attention. The general public needs to wake up and smell the destruction, because it is coming.

[knoyes8]

you guys realize john mayer is for ron paul...

[catcherinred]

this song isnt about the movie though..it was written way before obama even thought of being pres