This is 2020

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Tim McDill

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Calling humans nude
Calling food organic
Sacred is this land
Then what's the rest? I'm at it

This is 2020

Frenetic gluttony 
Hungry hungry hippos
Gullible or skeptical or nihilistic out of necessity 

This is 2020
This is 2020

After all that's happened here
It seems it all would have happened there
Ran its course, the bloated earth
Belched like Yellowstone geysers 
An oozing Kīlauea
Masks and eyes of accusation
What's left is all we're left with
Handed over all our rights
And we've been so receptive
To shut the door and turn off the lights

Georgie, sorry, I've got the feeling we've let you down
Or well, maybe not, but this crisis says a lot
And I'm feeling déjà vu - think I read it in a book, but by who
A lifetime ago a man with a pen 
Went to write a story but the story didn't end
You can read it in the print on the bills 
Or the pills in the palm of your hand
Or the line we never drew in the sand

This is 2020
This is 2020
This is 2020

Admit one, your ticket is free of charge
Padded walls, fluorescent halls
This isn't what we agreed upon
A lifetime ago a man with a pen
Went to write a story but the story didn't end
You can read it in the tabloids on your tablet
Scan your face, your iris, your ass, or your thumbprint
And the platitudes in the speeches 
Backed by packs of wolves on Wall Street 
Politics, sink your teeth in

This is 2020 (Hindsight is tin pail)
This is 2020 (And these forests are on fire)
This is 2020 (And we're at home, smashing our knuckles on the keyboards
Contra enemies online)
This is 2020 (Divide and conquer)
This is 2020 (The opposition is a joke)
This is 2020 (But red and blue and black and white
Aren't so easily distinguished through the smoke)

After all that's happened here
It seems it all would have happened there
Ran its course, the bloated earth
Belched like Yellowstone geysers 
The Chicxulub Crater
Smoking gun for the Mesozoic Era
What's left is all we're left with
Handed over all our rights
It all seemed so deceptive
But your signature is right on the line
Ran its course the swollen earth
A swollen people with a swollen mirth
Florida, Colorado
The snowglobe towns and sailboats in bottles
So this is what we're left with -
Masks and eyes of accusation 
And it all seemed so, so, hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey

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