This Sea of Incompetents
The willow weeps, but not as much as I weep for my country,
Perhaps the fate of mankind will depend on the Chinese--
The world has many mouths but sparse depleted is the pantry,
And how can once survive amongst incompetents as these?
’Tis not lack of ability that makes my brethren fail,
But lack of good priority and laziness (alas),
For all go seeking money over hill and over dale
Expending so much trouble heading off each other’s pass.
It stirs up straw-dog issues that cannot amount to much,
Each riling himself up about another person’s wrong,
Invading other countries never fearful of a putsch
When evil “homeland” forces grow domestic shady strong.
My country fails excessively to turn the other cheek
But hardly seems to fail to turn away its moral eye
While snide subversive forces plot in secret and oblique,
Yet not too secret which is cause sufficient for to cry.
Perhaps the fate of mankind will depend on the Chinese--
The world has many mouths but sparse depleted is the pantry,
And how can once survive amongst incompetents as these?
’Tis not lack of ability that makes my brethren fail,
But lack of good priority and laziness (alas),
For all go seeking money over hill and over dale
Expending so much trouble heading off each other’s pass.
It stirs up straw-dog issues that cannot amount to much,
Each riling himself up about another person’s wrong,
Invading other countries never fearful of a putsch
When evil “homeland” forces grow domestic shady strong.
My country fails excessively to turn the other cheek
But hardly seems to fail to turn away its moral eye
While snide subversive forces plot in secret and oblique,
Yet not too secret which is cause sufficient for to cry.