House of Paine

no decent prospects

‘a treacherous lack of prospects for a decent life'


  thus did the now infamous prof De Genova
  characterize our troopers to his fellow 
   ivy league egg heads

  the phrase is packed to the gills with
  significance isn't it




 


 to be fair 
one ought
  to suppose
   this jibe at our knights
      was meant 
not to disparge and shame
  them 

 but merely to explain them 
and jesus like 
perhaps forgive them 

they know not what they do 

and thats  why 

they’re  voluntarily  
riding around out there
in  Uncle Sams
 slaughter sled
 
not in the stands
 back home 

   why they ‘re 
 not just 
glowering and growling 
thru their tv screens 

at these very same  ivy   protesters

why they’re not 
  fuming and cursing them 

 from the comfort
 of their leathermatch recliners

but deGENERATE’S 
got it all  wrong 


these kids got good reasons

they want  to rumble 

unlike all those 
red white and blue  
   blood and circus watching 
    family den lions 
 these folks want to be players 
not yellow ribbon tiers 
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 first off 

prof DeGenerates

 you got the wrong army 

your  army fell to pieces 
 back there 12 -14 years ago 
just like the Berlin wall


the army you’re 
 talking about 
 is the creepy butt end 
 Nixon all volunteer
 slug farm
 beer and hemp army 

not the  wild bunch we got now
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let me explain
 
two forces
 at work  since the mid seventies
when old nix ended the draft 
  helped get us this rip and roar crowd 

the civil  wage went straight to  no where
and the martial man power  demand declined
 
so we got better potential  recruits
 and  more potential recruits
just when 
uncle needed less recruits 

selection became selective

 and their getting  better
every year

thats the story 

 
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 the kold war army 

 your carving up
like its a  dumb old hog 
  is gone 

and fuch man 
you  should know that
 before you  talk in public 

what an ass !

lets hear it for the prof

 “ thats the  late cold war 
center fold 
 you’re   beating off  to doc 
get with the program
ya cock sucking  egghead ”

 the pile of    reckless toothless
 rabble bacon 
 ready to  screw 
turkish whores
 and tango with the soviets
 is  long  gone prof


 can you handle the truth  

its a dangerous world out there
still 

 but all we need now 
   are a few damn good 
  pilot types
 a couple score 
of  base  techs 
and
yes 
a few desperadoes
 with tatooed souls

 two boot terminators 
ready to rock 

 just enough
 just in time 
thats todays army 
dick mouth 

   well geared up 
 to blast and fry
hard nosed 
and long hosed


and    most times 
 bored  drunk 
 and hopelessly 
in  love with   indecency 
for its own sake

  face it
  these cowpokes 
  would fuck 
a sweet  six year old girl 
or
 a  shaggy six year old goat  
  
 your choice

  and it aint for lack of alternatives
  its cause  
committing  outrage 
is the top of the  high list
for these young folks 
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what produces 
  todays soldier 

its simple
 
its not the result of 
a  poverty draft
 
its the can’t say no 
 invitation 
to join 
 the worlds biggest and best 
 turkey shoot club 
 
and thats what they’re getting
in Iraq 
a fish in a barrel blow off
and they’ll love it 

as long as they don’t 
pull cop duty 
afterwards
that is 


which is just what
Rumbo
 has gone   ahead 
and done to em 

 if uncle occs Iraq 
for say 2-5 years 
and lord knows
 thats the deal 
things will morph 

give this Army of one 
 occ duty  
 and after they take 
a few RPGs
up their asses 
 
 turkey shoot 
dreaming 
 will turn 
to fragging fury 

quick as hell grows whiskers