NIGHTMARE!!!

[Fat Man]

I'm not going to post any of my comments here, only the poem heard on the video.

I'll just let this YouTube video speak for itself!

Nightmare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5FSKE7b0pY
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Uploaded by GrapplingIgnorance on Jan 2, 2011

I can't be awake, no I must be dreaming
Thousands of hungry people are screaming.
We never seem to have enough money to feed them
But the army gets weapons whenever they need them.
I'm in nation that complains about its cars and jobs,
And it's union-safe work for its corporate slobs.
While elsewhere people work for pennies a day,
Where their children starve while our children play.
My eyes clench hard with my hands on my head,
Convincing myself I must be tossing in bed.
Because I'm in a place and time where people reject
Countless chances to improve intellect
Of this generation and the next,
By insisting that the scientific method is hexed.
That's the kind of nightmare I don't want to hear
But the brain throbs least when the head is clear.
Doesn't seem like I'm making a real dent just yet
Every time I teach them something new they forget
Wasting so much time I can't help but regret
And hope I wake up soon in a frosty sweat.
But I don't awaken I continue to see
All that's wrong with this dream and what's wrong with me.
It seems I'm in a world where the poor and regal
Smoke the same weed they vote to keep illegal.
In a place that's paid to keep the prisons overfilled
And to sent soldiers overseas where blood was spilled.
But they couldn't afford to properly fund the schools
or to foot the doctor bill of the lower class fools.
When it's time to reluctantly open my eyes
I feel even worse at my lack of surprise
When finally inhale and realize
That this isn't a dream or a compromise
It's a vision so clear that's almost sublime
As I'd been wide awake the whole damn time.