The other day Connie and I were in a furniture store and I whispered to her that I had to flee. I was having a neurological hijacking because of the unrelenting Bing Crosby Christmas music. I kept hearing “White Christmas” as I stumbled among the microfiber ottomans.
Some days I wish I could write a cranky song in the manner of John Lennon. The thing wouldn’t have much of a melody. In fact it would sound like wind through a cracked shingle. The lyrics would be the chief thing. Unlike John Lennon I wouldn’t carry on about my mother or the pain of being famous. My song would probably go something like this:
I don’t believe in corporate welfare…
I don’t believe in arms sales…
I don’t believe in baseball…
I don’t believe in the two party system…
I don’t believe in the Christian right…
I don’t believe in the U.S. Justice Department…
I don’t believe in Rupert Murdoch or Fox News or Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity or their sub-altern wanna be flunkies…
I don’t believe in Nancy Pelosi…
I don’t believe in “the Fed”…
I don’t believe in
Nashville
…
I don’t believe in Mike Huckabee…
I don’t believe in any political candidate who endorses torturing prisoners…
I don’t believe in the Environmental Protection Agency…
I don’t believe the White House…
I don’t believe in Lou Dobbs …
I don’t believe people who say that Nixon doesn’t look so bad after all…
For the sake of brevity I’m leaving out my general disillusionment with contemporary American poetry and fiction or my dismay that today’s college students aren’t outraged by the war profiteering of their respective colleges and universities which have plenty of dough invested in the “biz” of warfare…
I don’t know if I feel any better. But Hell, I never felt very good listening to those “post-Beatles” John Lennon albums. And I suppose Lennon would say that that was the point.
Did I mention that I don’t believe in the pharmaceutical industry or televised poker?
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 
Blue Girl,
Thanks for sharing your link. You did indeed make your friends smile, as you so often do!
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I know how you feel. I went to youtube the other day looking for that John Lennon song. Just felt like hearing it.
But, there *are* things to believe in. The gift of friendship, for one. The way friends can get together and create something so that other friends who listen might get some joy out of it.
Want to hear Neddie Jingo and my attempt to make our friends — including you and Connie smile?
Listen here…
here.
I’m hoping you’ve never stumbled among the microfiber ottomans when listening to Brenda Lee.
Merry, Merry friends!
Smile. Remember, there are things worth doing that for.
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I don’t believe you mean it!
Only joking!!!!
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