No one sings
Oh, what a beautiful morning
Anymore
No folks pass you by
Saying how do you do
All saying I love you
Anymore
The words and news of today
Are all so different
Vocabulary is of austerity, foreclosure
Disabled and bankrupt
Regulation and deregulation
Fiscal prudence or irresponsibility
Who knows, where is common sense
The reality is
Oiled cormorants on Louisiana beaches
IEDs mangle NATO peacekeepers
Volcanoes close airspace
Unseasonable snows close groundspace
Gunmen amok globally
Politicians always in the trough
Financiers defy gravity
Sports decision-makers join in
We do not need G20s and economists to change us
We need Monk, Fitzgerald, Gillespie, Humph and Armstrong
And some Amazing Grace would help
North Carolina, USA, April 2011
