Radio Say

 

  There was a fire in Wisconsin last night,
wherever that is.
Seven people lost their dogs!
I'm living here in Australia,
with Macquarie News - America again.
Uncle Sam says
 
  Gas leak in Minnesota. Huh!
What's that to my life, Sam?
AS long as you're not
running out of air over there
I don't care.
 
They go their way. O.K.
They figure . . . they gotta
Take everyone else as well.
Hell!
Uncle Sam says
 
  Test in Nevada today.
Real news. It's what the radio say.
"Six hunnerd 'n' fifty since fifty one"
the interviewee expert say.
Didn't have no trouble with the test today,
Nosiree Bob.*
Just gettin' us used to it.
Keepin us used to it.
Gettin' us used to it.
Over and over.
Nuclear.
 
He didn't tell us who it could kill Uncle Sam says
Didn't tell us what it was for Uncle Sam says
Didn't tell about it at all . . .  
Gettin' us used to it, Uncle Sam says
Keepin' us used to it,  
Nucleur shit.  
CLAP
 
 

A successful test today
Thanks to Macquarie News? . . . .. . . . . . . Uncle Sam says
A successful test today.

Look Sam,
Long as you're not
runnin' out of air
over there,
I don't care.

©Bruce McNicol 27/06/'87

  * reference to Bob Hawke?