a simple desultory philippic (or how i was robert mcnamara'd into submission)

i been norman mailered

maxwell taylored. i been john o'hara'd

mcnamara'd. i been rolling stoned and beatled till i'm blind. i been ayn randed

nearly branded

communist

'cause i'm left-handed. that's the hand i use

well

never mind!

i been phil spectored

resurrected. i been lou adlered

barry sadlered. well

i paid all the dues i want to pay. and i learned the truth from lenny bruce

and all my wealth won't buy me health

so i smoke a pint of tea a day. i knew a man

his brain was so small

he couldn't think of nothing at all. he's not the same as you and me. he doesn't dig poetry. he's so unhip that

when you say dylan

he thinks you're talking about dylan thomas

whoever he was. the man ain't got no culture

but it's alright

ma

everybody must get stoned. i been mick jaggered

silver daggered. andy warhol

won't you please come home?

i been mothered

fathered

aunt and uncled

been roy haleed and art garfunkeled. i just discovered somebody's tapped my phone.