I almost fainted when I saw my electric bill


the power company smiles when the summer is extra hot and humid

they have us by the nuts and never stop squeezing


and we say o.k. I'll give up some hooch some dinners

at the pretentious diner and pay the blood money


the air conditioners hum continuously

but sometimes it feels as if the universe itself were on the side


of the evil and the unforgiving greedy...


(if God's a Republican, we might as well go to hell...)



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