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What You Are Going To Do
Dear youth,
What are you going to do?
What are you going to be?
Let me clear it up for you
Let me help you see
You are going to pick up
To hang up
To wash up
To clean up
To be cleaners
To be janitors
To be picker-uppers
To clean up this mess left to you
By your fathers
And by your mothers
What are you going to do?
What are you going to be?
Let me tell you
Straight from me
Go out there
Go do it
Get to it
Roll up your sleeves
And go rake our leaves
Go fix our mess
Don't worry about your own happiness
Go fix our economy
Go clean up our wars
Go clean it up
Go mop up
The oil
The blood
That we have stained this earth with
Go moan
Go groan
Go die alone
Go to work
Go toil
Bear on your backs the lashings of our debt
Bear on your backs the lashing of our stupidity
Go make friends with our planet again
We cannot do it on our own
We have no more skin
Us men in
Suits
And
Ties
We don't care who lives or dies
So what do you say?
Young boy?
Young girl?
Sound okay?
Aren't you grateful for today?
Yours most truly,
The Men in Suits and Ties.
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