"George W. Bush has deep ties to the American political unconscious. He gets such strong support because he knows what people really want from a leader. He responds to the heart." --Sarah Cunningham, Bush Campaign Volunteer
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Give me liberty or give me a leader.
And not just a gutless brakes-for-small-animals wussy
leader.
Not some wimpy Euro-style leader.
No, I want a macho backslapping birdflipping leader.
A leader to stand in for me.
Give me liberty or give me a leader.
And not some UN appeaser leader.
Not some smart-talking international lawyer leader.
I want a bastard that eats the third world for breakfast
and Germany for lunch.
A leader with teeth like the casings used to shell unruly
villages.
A leader willing to jack up the unequal distribution of
wealth.
A leader that never offers small growers the fair price.
That loves dangerous chemicals and refuses to stop their
spillage.
A leader to stand in for me.
Give me liberty or give me a leader.
I want an arrogant decisive leader.
A leader not afraid to ignore treaties, modify
Constitutions, or travel by condom inside the belly of a Colombian housewife.
A leader who burns up three tankers of crude per hour.
Whose golf cart gets four miles to the gallon.
A leader who plows under Afghan poppy fields with his left
hand while cashing in on the traffick with his right.
A leader who rails against abortion but doesn't mind a few
schoolgirls gunned down by Israeli thugs.
A leader who can tell it like it is with a string of
baldfaced lies.
A leader to stand in for me.
Give me liberty or give me a leader.
And don't show me some Nam vet on welfare hard luck leader.
I want a robust ballbusting moving-forward leader.
A contra-loving neocon heehawing leader.
A leader ready to kick the Pope, doctor the books, and cash
in the whole future for a quarter of good earnings.
A leader not afraid to cheat or tell the academics where to
get off.
A leader ready to grab what he can from our fast dying
planet.
A real leader, not a negotiator or intellectual.
Don't give me a bilingual fucking leader!
I want a leader with grammar like a gas station
attendant.
A leader ready to choke that bitch Mother Nature like
she deserves.
A leader guaranteed to rot my bladder and destroy my
soul.
A leader to end all leaders.
A leader to stand in for me.
Eric Mader
Taipei, 10/31/04
Poached from the poem "Caffeine" by
Wallace Gagne
Tokyo, 07/10/04
Email: inthemargins03@hotmail.com
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