{"id":496,"date":"2014-10-24T02:20:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T06:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2014-10-24T02:31:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T06:31:17","slug":"am-i-sitting-on-your-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"Am I Sitting On Your Flower?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t blame me for the bees&#8217; suicide.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t control the planet: I&#8217;m just on for the ride.<br \/>\nThe melting ice up north that&#8217;s going to make the planet neat<br \/>\nInsures there&#8217;ll be a channel some day where there&#8217;s now a street.<\/p>\n<p>[CHORUS]<\/p>\n<p>Am I sitting on your flower?<br \/>\nHave I taken all your power?<br \/>\nIf I come back in an hour<br \/>\nWill you even be around?<br \/>\nIf I pull the big alarm<br \/>\ncan it still undo the harm?<br \/>\nWill the third time be the charm<br \/>\nor must we move to higher ground?<\/p>\n<p>Scientists predict a run of great catastrophes.<br \/>\nSince there&#8217;ll be no underground, we&#8217;ll have to live in trees.<br \/>\nFighting crows and vultures for our food will be a pain.<br \/>\nSunburned fish will float by in the wake of acid rain.<\/p>\n<p>{CHORUS}<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere strangers sit and cultivate an inner peace.<br \/>\nFatalists are hollering, &quot;Remember Rome and Greece.&quot;<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s abundant got redundant, then just disappeared.<br \/>\nWith a bang we had to face the whimper that we feared.<\/p>\n<p>(CHORUS)<\/p>\n<p>We used to dress in chinos,now we&#8217;re just neutrinos,<br \/>\nfloating in the cosmic wash of space.<br \/>\nWhere used to be the earth, there&#8217;s just a blackened dearth,<br \/>\na soul-less void that used to be our place.<\/p>\n<p>*END* (or sing forever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t blame me for the bees&#8217; suicide. I don&#8217;t control the planet: I&#8217;m just on for the ride. The melting ice up north that&#8217;s going to make the planet neat Insures there&#8217;ll be a channel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=496\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2505,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2505","url_meta":{"origin":496,"position":0},"title":"Seven Deadly Zinns (Hospital poem 7)","author":"Rick Young","date":"June 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Another long sword's been unsheathed against the darts of reason. 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