Alexei Panshin's The Abyss of Wonder

A little growth hormone in your meat    Designer vegetables sure are sweet A little mercury in your fish    Heavy metal makes a tasty dish A little bit of rat shit in your bread    Fallout falls out on your head A little ultraviolet for your skin    Super-nicotine, carcinogen A little Malathion kills the pest    A little Agent Orange kills the rest Hypodermic needles wash up on shore    Oil-soaked birds can't fly no more A little gasoline in your well    Add dixoin, then stir well Chicken guts and pig shit in your stream    Never mind, it's all a dream Microwaves boogie through your brain    Trees say please, no mo' acid rain Some chlorofluorocarbons for the ozone    Burn the rain forest, it'll keep us warm Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl    Glowing babies now are global No place here for nuclear waste    Put it in a rocket, pollute outer space -- by Josh Wachtel and Alexei Panshin

    Once upon a time, when music was wild and free, a riff of the moment would come floating by on the cosmic wind, and everyone would pick it up and do songs based on it for awhile.  Verses would get made up for it and passed around, so that any one of a dozen songs might have a verse that went:

                                    Climbed up the mountain
                                    Peeped through a hole
                                    Seen two little monkeys
                                    Doin' the sweet jellyroll

    Yesterday, just such a riff came by on the breeze.  You can think of this as our version of it, or as a parody of a hit, or, if you like, as verses for a song that's never been sung in public -- but ought to be.

   

 

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