MR MANN (Work in Progress)

MR MANN 

 

Mr Mann just landed 

For talks in Tel Aviv,

To speak to leaders trying out their new bombs in the streets.

And Mr Mann is adamant 

That he’s seen all he could see:

He read the news of Palestine

From south Los Angeles.

But he’s never seen a body

With no head outside his door,

And you can’t have “extra cream with that”

When you’re living in a war. 

 

Mr Mann read something that

Says the earth is getting warm:

“We’re living life too easy,

Dying with the heating on.”

And Mr Mann is worried 

That he’s not doing his bit,

But he blames the corporations,

‘Cause it’s them that’s doing it.

And though he read it on his phone,

Made of blood from foreign kids, 

If he can’t access the articles,

What can he do about it? 

 

Mr Mann’s been trimming

All the hairs upon his chest,

But pays for hair growth starter kits

So his beard can look its best.

Cause Mr Mann was told that

Ladies like a guy who cares:

They want one who is rugged,

But who has clean underwear.

And though he met her in a bar

And she said she didn’t drink,

When he told her he was stopping too.

She said she had to think.

 

Mr Mann just handed 

Human rights to everyone:

Equal opportunities 

For rich men and their sons.

But Mr Mann got canceled when

They found a teenage tweet.

They said he didn’t post a plain black box

When poor George died out on the street.

And when he said he “didn’t know”

That he was “too young at the time”

The hipsters in their Carhartt jeans 

Said he might have crossed a line.