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Zane Safrit Mar 2018
Heard all the news
Read all the sites
Talking heads views
Little sound bites

I just don't care
I really don't
Cause I got you
Cause I got you.

Trump's up in Flames
Our world is too
No one to blame
It's all boo-hoo

I just don't care
I really don't
Cause I got you
Cause I got you.

Children got fear
Adults got guns
The NRA cheers
We're all undone

I just don't care
I really don't
Cause I got you
Cause I got you.

Black man at home
Waving brand new phone
Cops shoot him dead
20 shots center mass

I just don't care
I really don't
Cause I got you
Cause I got you.

© Zane Safrit, 2018 All rights reserved.
Just a riff
Zane Safrit Jan 2018
Laughs and tears

Haunt these halls

Silent whispers

Silent fears

Empty hearts, empty rooms

Cold and still, endless gloom

Your hurt, mine

My tears, yours

What's it matter

What's done is done

© Zane Safrit, 2018 All rights reserved.
Zane Safrit Aug 2017
We roll by
Giving all
We got to
Get by and

We might be
Driving a
Taurus or
Fiesta
Maybe a
Pickup truck
Or shiny
Kia thing

We will rage
Sometimes by
Our dying
Kitchen light
Not too loud
Can't lose our
Jobs because
Our babies
Need healthcare

© Zane Safrit, 2017
Hat tip to Dylan Thomas for his "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night."

This started from my perspective, 'He.' But then I remembered that economics and everything it's possibly more accurate to say "She" ... So I wrote it with She/Her. Then I realized ... it's us and we. We're all in this together.
Zane Safrit Jul 2017
Long beard, longer arms
Lurching, grinning, having fun
Jamming, slamming, deep
down a rutted country road

Their hope and dreams washed
away in last year's hundred
year flood, the second
This decade but who's countin'
Zane Safrit Jul 2017
See if I wanna
Tell it all and, dunno, I
wanna see if I

Could shake it up now
Too old or too high too high
She's smiling now, I

Wanna see more, the
Light so bright, so crystal clear
Shines in my eyes, I

Wanna cry is all
So happy, so happy I
Can see tomorrow
Zane Safrit Jun 2017
Dream on, he sang
Dream on, Dream on
Just keep dreaming
Always liked the song

Some days it’s like
stirring around
old, cold ashes
the fire gone now

© Zane Safrit -  2018 - All Rights Reserved
Zane Safrit Jun 2017
Someone took my laptop
And my smartphone too
What kinda world when
they do that to you

No one needs to steal her
she just walked away
Someone else buying her
pretty things today

Now I am happy too
here writing all day
but please would you
tell her, tell her, okay?
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