They are Nobody's Buddy

They are Nobody's Buddy

 

 

Are the Beach Boys 

reissuing their song "Shut Down"?

 

"Tack it up, Tack it up

buddy gonna shut" the government down.

 

rev your engines Donkeys and Elephants

it's time to run

asses and trunks

asses in the trunk

the race is on---

who will be The Biggest Loser?

 

oh, right, the American people

we are watching the event

with our tickets burning the palms

of our hands

 

we paid to pay more

nothing is free

How much to see the combatants

come to agreement

 

idle peacefully

drive a victory lap

for us?

 

and if not,

please refund our faith

in those we elected.

 

 

erin-cilberto

10/1/25

Reviews

[redzone]

We really don't need them, we can make our own way, build our own society, one that actually relies on all of us to work side by side to make a new more humane world. Getting rid of them is of utmost importance. see revcom.us for the plan. Aren't we tired of the Lucy and the football show?? How did Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven song go, "....it's not too late to change the road we're on". But we better do it quickly before even worse happens.
-Curt

[jacob erin-cilberto]

very true...thank you for your insights, Curt.
j.

[Ted Kniffen]

Common sense appears to be all too uncommon. I guess the idea that they work for us is untrue. No wonder that there is so much animosity at work here.
The egos are too large and the minds too small ... if used at all.

Maybe its time to do what the Gipperor the Iron Lady did and fire them all.

Well said j.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Yes, I think you might have the solution.
j.

[Chris Shaw]

At the mention of The Beach Boys my eyes lit up. You transferred me to a different time and a different place. I was happy to escape the political shambles taking place on both sides of the pond. Somehow the words of Barbara Ann came filtering through.

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Ha ha...Barbara Ann...."you got me rockin' and rollin', Barbara Ann, Ba Ba BaBa.....thanks, Chris.

[RomaJ]

Love how you turned political chaos into a Beach Boys track...catchy, clever, and painfully true. Makes me want to grab a surfboard and ride the waves of dysfunction!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I grew up with them as one of my favorite groups...
I really like your last line...that would work so well in a poem.
thanks, RomaJ, and have a great day.
j.

[RomaJ]

A poem with a line about "riding the waves of dysfunction" would be brilliant, especially in your style! I really hope you find a way to work it in -- I'd love to see that! If you ever weave that line into a new poem, let me know. Happy writing!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I was thinking in terms of YOU writing the poem with YOUR line...

[RomaJ]

I'll definitely try to weave it into one of my poems haha. Thanks j