What Is and What Should Be

What Is and What Should Be

In the year of our Lord /

AD, twenty, twenty-four

The world is changing faster /

Then it ever has before.

Yet, from heretofore /

to forevermore

My so-called life remains /

the same old boring chore.

Same old Coke machines /

divesting dollar bills;

Same ole trophy widows /

contesting iron wills.

Where’s my Doc and Marty

time-traveling machine?

Where’s my world hunger solved

by Soylent Green?

I’m not pining for a perfect world /

I’m just holding out for more,

I'm just dreaming of a new day /

better than the day before.

Like, PCs that still play CDs

Replacement parts for aging knees.

Like flame-retardant trailer parks;

Cotton briefs self-bleach skid marks.

For AIDS and cancer

We’re still short on an answer;

But, if your waist, once flat,

Has grown bulbous and fat

Or, if there’s nary a hair

Hiding under your hat

Ask your primary care

About this and 'bout that.

I’m not pining for a perfect world /

I’m just holding out for more

just dreaming of a day better than /

better than the day that came before.

Like going Dutch on first dates /

Legal weed in fifty states;

Worship houses passing /

performance-based collection plates.

Like dark horse White House candidates /

Younger than our youngest states;

Like toilet bowls that don’t splash butts /

Like guns that only kill gun nuts...