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Obscenity (The Ballad of Firesky)

from Arrivederci 2020 by Tom Smith

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I wrote this on Sept. 10, 2020, when the smoke was so thick that the sky turned red or deep orange in many places along the West Coast, and authorities were telling people the air outside was hazardous to their lives. The song has a few apocryphal elements (e.g., it was thought at first that the Glass fire was started by fireworks at an unborn child's gender-reveal party), but not many and not by much.

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Donald Trump took my land,
Made it someplace I can't stand,
But I thought, I’m still free,
You can't take the sky from me.

Then some California twits
Revealed their unborn’s naughty bits
Had a real fireworks spree,
Burned down every frickin’ tree.

Firefighters risk their lives,
Children, elders, husbands, wives,
Have to flee their property...
What if the kid’s non-binary?

Washington and Oregon,
Over four million acres gone,
Where blue skies once met the sea,
Trump’s complexion is all I see....

Lost my love, lost my land,
Lost the last place I could stand...
Trump says rake between each tree,
But no funding shall you see...
Trump, he took the sky from me.

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from Arrivederci 2020, released August 28, 2021
Music: "Serenity (The Ballad of Firefly)" by Joss Whedon
Photo by Max Whittaker for the NY Times

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Weird Al with more books, JoCo with more jokes, Carlin with more Cthulhu. Since 1985, Tom Smith has been breaking hearts, minds, and laws of propriety and physics with his insane blend of sf/fantasy, Life With Computers, pop culture, politics, and puns. More than twenty albums later, he maintains the best is yet to come. ... more

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