WE ARE ALL GEORGIANS by Dennis Doph

beyond beyond . 60

Yeah The thicknecked stump bodied presidential candidate
Stood as tall as he can stand being only five six and a bit
With tears in his rheumy eyes he cried out
"We are all Georgians!"

Then proceeded to whip it up delighting the miserable folk
In Eau Claire or Kenosha or whichever fucked-over rustbelt town
He was campaigning
"We are all Georgians!"

Shit John Till only a week ago most Americans thought
There was a new political phenomenon going on
There north of Florida South of the Carolines
But it is just the usual bullshit

"We are all Georgians!"

Goes hand in hand Foot in mouth With that other catchphrase

"Drill here! Drill now!"

That poor sap Mikhail Shaakshivili Poor dumbed out former buttboy
for the American Enterprise Institute Johnny-on-the-Spot
In that cultural backwater Tiblisi God how much America cares
about the Sovereign Republic of Georgia Like hell

Condi and George and Gates greased the skids for Shaakshivili
Goaded him into being our White Knight Georgian Don Quixote
Charging the gates of the Evil Empire Suddenly it's news
South Ossetia Abkhazia Places most Americans never in their lives
have heard of They have been de facto part of Russia for twenty years

Only the old artificial boundaryline set at the Versailles Conference
way back in '17 Determined South Ossetia would be Georgian
North Ossetia Russian Omigod All the oil rich Sultans of Russian petrobusiness
Have had their summer dashas in Abkhazia for fifty years

Still Mikhail Shaakshivili hoisted on his own petard By our leaders
Like a fat cocktail sausage skewered on a Korean frill toothpick
Charged South Ossetia with his antiquated army of mavericks
Hoping against hope Condi would come riding to the rescue on her Hummer
...but she never came

-"We are all Georgians!"

Sure
As the plump little man rushes about waving his pudgy hands Screeching

"Drill here! Drill now! We are all Georgians!"

Yes we are all Georgians We are all Georgians in the sense that we have
This endless appetite to be gulled by our fearless leaders Who don't give
Jack Shit
About the Republic of Georgia other than its being a stick in the eye to Moscow

It's a good distraction
While Iraq is fracturing Afghanistan ready to implode Pakistan ready
to go ballistic
We can go back to playing the Good Old Cold War Game Russia Fear

So get out there John Do your usual rant While your skanky wife
Tries to keep the true profits of her beer millions out of the papers
You guys in the national press have really given this pumped-up Navy Brat
a free ride

"We are all Georgians?"

Bullshit

We are all lemmings headed for the cliff while Joe Lieberman
Skinny Sancho Panza from Connecticut keeps reminding John
Which countries are Sunni and which Shiite Like any of these
Cocksuckers
Cared Cheney never did Rumsfeld never did Condi knew
But she pretended it didn't matter Now they all go about
Screaming with their hair on fire

"We are all Georgians!"

I am not Georgian
I am one of 300 million disenfranchised Americans and I'm heading
for the bathroom to fwow up
Because too much of tiny Georgia just got stuck in my craw