Go Gently

Go Gently

Be a good sociable citizen.

Celebrate the greeting card holidays.

Stand up and wave your flag and cheer

when the [APPLAUSE] button lights up.

Settle into the linear life

they have laid out for you

from the cradle to the grave.

Do what they want you to do–

never question, never diverge,

never break that socially unforgivable law

of independent thought.

Make it easier on the spin-doctors,

have no preference for truth above lie.

Live up to your potential

as a member of the mob–

be faceless, mindless,

shapeless, voiceless–clueless.

And in this content.