Cynical Baby Downtown-Nancy Ames

"Soothing voices are announcing,
cynical baby downtown,
another suppression of hope,
a day of compulsory dancing,
        cynical baby downtown,
and subliminal sex, guns and dope.
 
The mistress of rude assumptions,
cynical baby downtown,
is trying to give us a clue,
displaying the bodily functions,
        cynical baby downtown,
of what I might mean to you.
 
Old men are showing photographs,
        cynical baby downtown,
of some of the targets we hit;
I guess the animal that laughs,
        cynical baby downtown,
has had a testosterone fit.
 
And the party went ballistic,
        cynical baby downtown,
but no one was to blame;
it was your explosive lipstick,
        cynical baby downtown,
that had just spoken my name."
 
Copyright C. 2008 Nancy Ames

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