House of Paine

TWO RAW LEFTS COMPARED

 

 MUSICAL QUESTION NUMBER 9 

HOW THE FUCK 
CAN TWO SO FAR APART 
COHORTS 

SO WILDLY DIFFERENTLY
BRAIN WASHED 
 RAW MIND SWARMS 

AS HAN CHINA’S AND
YANKEE DOODLE’S 

 BOTH STAND UP

BOTH  CONFRONT

BOTH  BOLDLY CLAIM 
THEY ‘LL RISK ALL
THROW DOWN ALL 

MAKE  A NEW BEGINNING 
FOR THE WHOLE WORLD 

AND THEN BOTH
TAKE THE INEVITABLE 
INSIDE BASEBALL  
 SHORT SHEET JOB 
 AND 
BOTH 
FIND THEMSELVES 
“ MALGRE THEMSELVES ”
 TAKING 
THIS 
GRACELESS
 NASTY AS FUCKING HELL 
BURGER  SWURVE

AND BOTH END UP 
 IN MID CAREER 
THE BEST AND BLUEST 
CLIMBERS 
ON THE SUNNY SIDE 
OF COMFORT MOUNTAIN 
 
THE ANSWER APPEARS TO BE 

EASY AS SHIT
PASSES
 THRU A GOOSE 



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  Shazzzam MATES 
THE WORD IS SPREADING 

  
 
 Mao’s
 “bombard the headquarters ”
generation

the makers of
 the DA LUAN 
  the great chaos
the shock troops
of the  revolutionary storm
of 66-67
have  morphed into  
 greed heads

yep thats their latest
remake 
   heroes
of the NEW 
New China 

here's the urban myth 

almost all of them
Red Guardian types 
 still alive 

 NOW A DAYS 
play out their hands
as shameless
dastardly
“ I want mine ”
 guys 

yes
 that's right
 the  red guard generation
 the generation 
of mid 60s
  high school
 and college kids
 
the generation 
that for the best part
 of two years 
painted the east redder 
then a baboon’s ass 

the urban cream 
of a generation 
that started 
by storming
  the sky above 
and ended up
 digging  
the mud hole below

that once beautifully 
 blank stack of paper
 
now turns out
 to be 
 after all these years 
  as Gung Ho
 on the Roaring  
yellow market world 

 as  our very own 
 Big Chillers 
are on the brighter shade of pale

yep
 just like our 
own self righteous 
rad  packleaders 

the red guardians 
ain’t boo hooing 
in their tents 
about lost victories
or what might have beens 

nope
 they ‘ve changed

the vinegar
inside thems
the vinegar
that
made em creamers then

makes em creamers now 

after eating ox shit 
back then

 somehow 
today 
they’re spittin out 
 champagne 

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ever heard this one ?

“ great disorder
yields to
 great peace ”

or words
 to that effect 

it's MAO 

AND TRUE OF COURSE

sure  it is 

 that's dialectics 

but comrades 
look at 
the red guard generation 
today

are they
the great peace 
  the chairman figured on 

what is china today 
 great peace 
or just 
 great fleece 
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 think on it 
a little longer   
maybe so 
maybe Mao saw
this future  quite clearly
 
there's  evidence he did 

the guy was a sage 
after all 

on the other hand 
if so 
then 
what the fuck was he up to 
back in 66 
when he launched this bizness

was it meant all along 
to be maybe
 just a show 
 
 a studio revolution

a simulation

a spectacular 

an audience participation 
 rigmarole 

a just for your edification 
Romantic Revotainment 

MAO’S 
 last  march 
down struggle road 
 his final 
   TRAVELLING SHOW 
a sham

“ and this time comrades 
I’m going to  make it 
a shambolation 
 that's right folks
 cheap fast and easy ”

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“ ladies and gentlemen
Mao has entered the building ”


jesus they 
converged on red square 
and they 
circled him by the millions
like he was the kaba stone
 
 red flags

 cheers 

 cure all formulas 

 cat nip brothers and sisters

pure cat nip 


cheap fast and easy 

   sell them on
the great helmsman's 
own concoction 

sell em on 
his own personal blend 

“ the finest strongest 
 bottled reb tonic on earth ”

and watch them 
the blank brained 
city  rubes

watch em 
 take it all in
 
shit sister
 they ‘ve 
been so 
“ duck stuffed ‘
already 
on the fearless leader’s
 CURE ALL MOJO

WHAT CAN A POOR BOY DO 

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“ come on gang take a swig 
it's  the final answer 
it's a three in one elixir 
listen up 
first
 it ‘ll put the sound 
of a   million  red  trombones 
  in your ears 

SECOND
it’ll
 give ya the wildest 
most steely  eyed 
anything goes  
  glow
 this side
 of  an atomic reactor 


 you’ll feel unstoppable 
cause you're  young
 and pure 
 and high fucking high high high 
 
 and third
and 
 last but not least 
my children 
there will 
come apon you 
 an  inner  light
an inner light 
   so bright and red 
you’ll cry out 
“ chairman
 I see
I see
 I  see exactly 
i see
exxxxxxactly 
 what I am 
and
what I’m
 meant to do ”

 zombee
army on the march 
millions strong 


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and when the magic waters
 kicked all the way in 
they went  fucking huntin snipe 

not all ant file either

no with self sarter innovations
real bottom up heave ho ing

first they went for 
the  big whigs

jamming  dunce caps on em 

then they pulled 
the booty search of all time 

 stripping the haveoise
of  their 
fucking havings 
right down
 to the last  dignified old
 fucking jezabell

stripped em  naked 
grabbing 
 all the crap of ages past 
and throwing  it 
on a bonfire 
yes 

all of it 
on the bonfire

  all of it
even 
their
   hideously compromised 
 moms' and pops'
 fucking inanities
  
all of it 
torched to cinders 

and  
last
 but not least 
 as a topper 
before the  drunkin spirits 
 wore off
another round 
or two 
of  frat rush style 
 theatre of CRUELTY

agin  the higher uppers

black up their faces
one more time
 and 
paper  over their asses
with red wagon
slogans 
one more time 
tie up their paws
behind their heads
one more time

give their ribs
 a few boot licks 
one more time 
and 
maybe this time
 
“ they’ll know enough
 to kill themselves 
afterwards 
so  we won’t  have to
 do it all again 
next week ”

some kinda hell 
wasn’t it 

a 15 year old's wet dream 

a world gone red hip 

a life's journey 
all rolled up together 
 in one big red 
showboat wrangle 
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 fast cheap and easy 

 ready to swallow 
 Maoanizer tonic 

drink of it 
and 
at once
 you raw ones

 can fire up a  100  toy revolts

never mind 
the cries of 
“  monstrous proportions ”
fom the crypto hanburgers

if the show gets 
over booked  
let it rip
long as you  keep it urban

cause kiddos 
after all it's just 
 a leggo construction 
one big school play 

a  project 

a field trip
 
nothing to fuck up
 the food supply with 
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course raws
being forever rawish 

and seeing as
 one does always become two 

the kidzees
 split assunder 
and 
started
goin for each other wind pipes 
 and 
with an ever gathering frenzy 

then wham

 suddenly
 we’re in phase two 

low low level shanghai 
cadre opportunists
start agitating 
  the lower orders
yes the wagelingers
the guys who  actually
 produce everything 
urban that is 

so now 
 the sovereign class of socialism
itself 
the wage worker class is 
starting 
to get  whipped 
into the mix
at least in 
the city by the sea 

and we have
momentary 
visions 
of Paris 1871
right there
 in old Shanghai 

but then its
“ no dice ”
says the chairman
 
“ no urban commune 
for Shanghai ”

no not in Shanghai 
or anywhere else in china 
for that matter

but Mao’s
 still for the keeeeeeeeeeds

“ KEEP GOING 
  FELLAS
ALL'S  FINE
 YOU’RE
 LEARNING
THE BEST WAY 
YOUR LEARNING 
BY DOING ”

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but then the scamps 
 brake out the live ammo 
not once 
but more then once

SOON ENOUGH 
THERE'S
HIGHER AND HIGHER
FIRE POWER 
VERSIONS OF
CAPTURE THE FLAG
underway
all over urban china
and well
 the old
 RUBY RED PANDA 
after a back and forth
 on 
“ arming the leftos ”

and after far more then 
 enough toy war 
for any scout troop 

 finally
the great red grand dad
   sends 
his  beloved
paddy  ignorant
 fucking 
peasant boy army into action
and 
presto 
the red guards
are  drown in a sea 
of  STIFF GREEN UNIFORMS 

the  flames of Rawdom
 are extinguished 
the rad fest 
 is  called to 
 order  
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as always in this world 
what can not last
 will not last 

end of tale 

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face it
 no way could
 the thing have ever 
become a real revolution 

what class was in power
 before 

what class 
would replace it 

when 
the same answer

is the answer

 to  both questions 

then we’re talking a giant
social  somersault here 

sure
 the insiders 
all had their agendas 

sure
 big bad top elements
fell out of the higher pockets
of state
as the urban body politic
 did its flip over itself

but that's it
 
as far as practical
 next day results go
that's all she wrote

“ so all that shit 
you say 
was done  just
      to spill  out
 Liu 
and 
half his crew 

 YOU GOT TO BE 
DICKIN ME RIGHT ”

 nope 
I ain’t 
cause it 
sure as hell looks 
 like we’re to believe 
 there is no bigger back story
 YET TO EMERGE 
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and to think
the  prize package
the famous mr DENG

the real target 
the real 
 back seat  driver 
survived 
it all
and on purpose
too

how can it be 
 
from act one 
the Deng heap 
 clearly played
 danger man
 numero uno  

but there it is
 
 the little man prevailed 

the amazing  mr Deng
kept it together 
so well
in fact 

 he was 
still around 
to come back 
  and come back 
and back again

till he
finally   got 
that fucking 
black cat
 in operation 
and damned if it didn’t
catch mice at twice
maybe three times 
 the white cat’s rate 

and soon enough 
the PRC 
 is the globe's latest 
  miracleburger 
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so then after 
all that down spiral 

the road led back
 to boobsville anyhow
despite
 reaching the point where 
 cadrehood  looked eatible 
if it didn’t glow bright scarlet

after all that 
pissed away overhead 

what really happened
at best 
the PRC 
just took  
a real severe  
political shit 

at best she blew out 
a hard to blow out 
 nestle ring 
of  tip top B-roaders


and put off the B- road forking 
for how long ?

shit 
come on
 mao dies in76
and 
 Deng’s running the table
 by 79 

 so we’re speaking of 
3 years 

decent enough interval 
for ya ?

I doubt it 

 superK
 
 bought 3 
 in indochina
with 6 years
 of fucking needless 
hell fire and death 

 in either case 
  that's a lot of
heavy  lifting
 for a  three year postponement 

unless
as old capin Ahab would say
“  it twas
emblematic mates
 at heart  all along
 emblematic 
meant for a lesson ”


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makes sick sense don’t it 
look at 
Mao’s 
boundary 
to the play pen 

“ no 
never will we  risk 
ANARCHY
 for long ”

“ the working class
need not split 
this is the d of p ”

despite his bluffs
Mao 
clearly 
wasn’t up for a trip 
back to 
guerrilla base camp

instead  
he  sent
his super heated 
red guard kidakidzzzzzzzzs

down  country 

obviously 
the little pampered brats
deserved just what they got

after all that fucking 
red rover red rover
 I dare you to come over 
 playground shit
all that sexed up drug fueled
vagabondage 

yes indeed 
a severe slug of 
dude ranching 
was the perfect antidote 
after
sending  em flying high
then 
shoot em down 
and put em 
to work 
in the paddys 
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well so much for that 

here's how it came out 
the other end 
all those once raw skulls
 are now teaming 
with visions of 
a  BMW
a    TOWER OFFICE 
and a   CELL PHONE 

 the RED GUARD KIDS
now grayish  
and less 
then politically buff 
hardly yearn
for   another  GPCR 
 a second chance
 to go  the distance 
with the secret Hanoise
no 
now
 THEY’RE
THE HANOISE

and it's 
hey gang
 what's 
 THE NEXT 
NEW 
 KOOLY  GADGET 
i can putz on my credit card 
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 so there !!!
all
 you self loathing
woodstock  faggots 

it ain’t just us
 white boomers
that dropped the glorious
red banner of history 

 for a little
 fast and furious
top of the tops 
high apon high
 action reaction climaction 

from rad to hypoiseee
in one great leap 
SEE 
it's as easy  and desirable 
 around the otherside
of the globe 
as it is here at Homer Simpson's 


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have i left you still puzzled 

how the fuck 
  TWO LEFTS 

from opposite ends
of the planet
from cultures
as 
unlike as space and history allows

how  possibly
can these two raw gens 
meet again so nice and smoothly
all these years later
 
how the fuck
can 
 they both 
 make 
exactly  the same right turn 
into cynical meism 

well so it goes
 shitface 

live with
or live  against it 
or for that matter live thru it 
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I’m puttin my money 
on the millenials 

I’m bettin 
they  brake the kapshow spell
for themselves
 and the Xers
 
but that's
 typical isn’t it
typical 
 upper burger boomer 
 bullshit


what the fuck 
could I possibly know 

not me 
but better heads then mine 
figured 
 black dope peddlers 
 looked like
the revolution 
back in 69 
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YOU BETCHA 
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post script

look at the sds /red guard generations

 as a portion of each society 
the RGs probably
 were a higher %
though the elite origins 
of the early leaders 
are exactly similar 

the rg thing 
may have run wider
 but no deeper it seems 

 who the hell
 was doing the  writing
 on all those
 fucking blank sheets of paper
east and west
 both went bad 
as bad can be 

to begin with
 they were hardly 
 so blank after all 

everyone has
 a house full of excuses back home 

right comrades 

  the RED GUARDS
came in red and black flavors
depending on their klass background 
and they split in half 
and tried prying 
the wagelings in half too 

and 
on another tack 
the little enthusiasts 
 got themselves 
           leadership snookered

or did they really just 
hit the big mirrored wall
like we did 

some times
you make more history
 then history makes you
 and other times
 history makes way more of you 
then you make of history 

just cause 
your ignorant
and blank
and full of pampering praise 

 doesn’t make you
 right or left 

teaching the teachers
who taught 
 the  SDSers anything 
they taught themselves nothing 
 
nothing
except
fair's fair 
and green's green 

maybe the red guards are their compliments 

 THAT'S WHY 
THEY SEEM  SIMILAR 
 because 
 THEY COMPLETE EACH OTHER 

what's  different 
to begin with
was simply irresistible 
TO THE OTHER 

and basically
 visa versa 

then again
 what's three worlds apart 
got to do
 with it anyway 

we’re  planet mates 
after all 
 more’s there
 to  be alike  then unalike 

  in a duet 
they start at arms length
 cross each others' path
to opposite extremes 
 and then come together 


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sure the surface seems
 epochs apart 
 deep inside
an  urge to merge
 away the distances 

as if distance 
was all
the  difference
history  had to offer 

 
 deep below 
was same ziet giest 
a molin’away 
and making  unseen
 head way 

 imagine the negative
 a twilight zone reversal
 
we’re 
 SET OFF
 BY AN IKE CULT 

 I LIKE IKE I LIKE IKE I ILKE IKE

GRANDAD WORSHIP 
NOT BOBBY DYLAN 

and in china 
what way would the wind blow there

 
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teaser think it over 

was  the quest for a  deifiable
 helmsman whether Dylan or Mao 
so damn different after all 

 except  for the figure of 
MAO himself
being an all in one 

mao was like a walt disney
  a studio chief 

but beloved 
despite himself 
beloved 
by the outside ignorant masses

so you imagine 
for god sake's 
 if  old Walt
the don of boomer kiddyhood 
instead of croaking 
or whatever the fuck he really did
around 1966 
had started to boogey down
gone fantasia himself 

then gone on TV 
with elvis and dylan behind him
and said 
“ all mickey and i want 
is a new age
an age  of
liberation
a mind blowin liberation 
with a river of 
 sex drugs and rockinroll 
and 
fuck anyone over thirty
if they try
 to say no 
 let's get down kidz 
 start the  beauty arollin  ”

fuck we’d a followed 
 a Walt talkin like that 
fucking off a cliff  

I mean as different
 as the cultural chasm 
separating the 2 devine objects 
might lead one to suppose 

the analogy holds water 

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 Kultural  Kalamity Klash 


yes they were tools
 elite fractions
tussled with each other
 through them 

but come on 
sniff a little around the edges 
who used who finally
 
it was two agendas that synched
and synched well 
 for a spell 

thats all
 no more no less 

then they each got sent
 to a false dream of
rural squalor 

so they could both
 learn
 just how good
silk sheet  privilege really 
can feel