we're rome
aztec mexico
easter island paradigm
we are followers of jimmy jones
cutting in the kool-aid line
we are Animal Farm pigs
we are a terry gilliam film
we are fear oligarchy
we are wolves in wolves' clothing
we are this planet's kidney stones
in the process of getting passed
metamorphosis from first to last
a system breaking down beyond repair
a product of three million millionaires
and 100 million easy marks
we are marie antoinette
we are joseph mccarthy
we've finally become the divided states
a nation built on freedoms, fears, and hates
the denotation of irony
we all want a hollywood end
but we're getting a foreign one
the script has already been penned
and titled, "the epitaph of a drowning nation"