State-of-the-Nation Snaps. (Part 3)
(Dancing DISCOS and their distribution of Darkness)
Do you know how it feels
When the nation’s outrage
Surges sky-high with NEPA’s outage
And our few joyful moments
Drop and sink like hapless stones
Do you know how it feels
When darkness eats your night
And powerless hours undo your day
While failing factories dip you deeper
In the abyss of penury’s pain
Do you know how it feels
When the fridge turns into a furnace
And the microwave oven becomes
A grave of macro miseries
Shrouded in spider webs and silent neglect
Do you know how it feels
When the National Grid collapses
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Like a house of children’s cards
Hapless victims of the greed
Of Eating Chiefs and visionless czars
Budget after budget
Billion after billion
Endless rounds of mindless resolutions
Our rulers balance their books
With graft and galloping debts
BAND A, BAND B, BAND X, BAND Y
DISCO companies never falter
In their distribution of darkness
In a sad, groping country
Where the National Grid succumbs to the National Greed