Rhymes with Weinstein

Greg Palast, the journalist, shares a brain with Greg Palast the poet and story writer.  This is the first time Palast the poet has bothered you with verse—and the last time.  I will never send you another poem nor story unless you specifically sign up for my rhymes and fictions.

I was living in Hollywood, this was years ago, working as a sandwich-sign man, jazz drummer and a sperm donor.  God knows why, but my girlfriend decided to try out for a film.  This is about her encounter with Harvey Weinstein – or, more correctly, one of the 120,000 Weinsteins trolling the arts.

[Caution: language not for the squeamish.]

Audition (for Harvey Weinstein)

“STICK WITH ME ON THIS:

“IF YOU WERE ON A DESERT

“ISLAND AFTER A PLANE CRASH YOU WOULD DO 

“ALL THESE HORRIBLE THINGS.

“YOU WOULD EAT DEAD BODIES. YOU WOULD FUCK

“DEAD BODIES."

Why are we listening to this freak?

Because he is an EMPLOYER

and we are under-employed.

"YES YOU WOULD!  WE WILL REVEAL IT ALL!

"THE WHOLE DARK HELL OF THE HUMAN SOUL!

"WE HAVE THE GUTS TO FILM IT AND I WANT TO

“KNOW IF YOU HAVE THE GUTS TO PLAY IT!"

   What he wants to know is, are we willing

to play girl corpses

with our vaginas sticking up out of the sand.

The three other girls are from Iowa.  They played "Sandy"

in the Lansing High School production of Grease.

They have glossies

and they are listening to this brain-damaged tarantula.

and I am listening to this brain-damaged tarantula.

But I am 8000 years old.  Yes I am.

So when we step out into the California storm,

and hear him screaming back in his production office,

my little sisters don't know that

I have psychokinetically twisted his eyes back into his head

and as his sockets drip blood and mascara, he is looking

straight into his own brain and he can't stop screaming.

That's the kind of thing you can do when you're 8000 years old.

And you know what else I can do?

I can read flags.

And this flag says, "My tongue is in New York and my anus is in

Los Angeles.

I eat dollars made of Mexicans and it comes out of LA as

TELEVISION."

When you're 8000 years old you can do these things

But you can't get a job, can you?

Unless you put your lips around the tarantula.

I'll tell you what.

I'll trade you your resume for this information:

Kill Mrs. Schneider because she lied to you in the third grade.

Kill Santa Claus because he lies to children day after day.

Kill everyone but Richard Nixon, because

he told you the truth

when he said,

                                        Evil is a full-time job.

That's what he told me when I was much younger than you.

Hollywood, CA

For Mom (Rolling Stone should pay up)

Thank you for your kind and consoling notes after my mother's death last month. Here's some more Mom.

 

* * * * *Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush, Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a major non-fiction movie. The post-election update of the movie, subtitled The Case of the Stole Election, has been released on Amazon — and can be streamed for FREE by Prime members!

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