Revolution II

At This Point ...

I'm Not Exactly Sure ...

Just How Many ...

'Revolution-Based'

Pages ...

I Have ...

On This Site

But ...

What's One More Revolution ...

¿ Between Friends ?

¡ WARNING !

I Want To Make It CLEAR ...

That REVOLUTION ...

NEED NOT BE

VIOLENT

I AM NOT ...

ADVOCATING

VIOLENCE

FOR ... ANY ... 'REASON'

¡ WHAT-SO-EVER !

I AM ALSO NOT ...

ADVOCATING

'CRIME'

NOR VANDALISM

NOR LOOTING

NOR THE HARMING ...

OF ANY ONE ...

¡ NOR ANY THING !

:( Although ... A Little 'Graffiti' ...
Is Probably ... 'Inevitable' ):

YOU ...

Are A 'PROTESTER' ...

Are An ...

'AGENT OF CHANGE'

BUT IF ...

YOU ...

'STRAY'

INTO VIOLENCE ...

INTO ...

The DESTRUCTION ...

Of Human Life ...

Or Property ...

--- THEN ---

YOU Have LOST ...

¡ THE CAUSE !

YOU Have LOST ...

¡ THE 'HIGH MORAL GROUND' !

YOU Have LOST ...

THE SYMPATHY ...

OF THE VERY PEOPLE ...

THAT YOU HAD HOPED ...

¡ TO FREE !

¡ YOU ... HAVE ... LOST !

--- YOU ---

HAVE JUST

PLAIN

¡ LOST !

When Revolution Comes ...

Just WHERE ...

Do You Expect ...

To Find Out ...

¿ About It ?

¿ On The Nightly News ?

¿ On Facebook ?
[ Currently 'Meata' [sic] ]

¿ On Ur 'Instagram' ?

From That Guy ...

Who Ran Past You ...

¿ On The Street ?

What IF ...

The Revolution ...

¿ Has Already Begun ?

But All of Your ...

'News Feeds'

In Your ...

'News Bubble'

Have Failed ...

To Pick Up On It ...

Quite ...

¿ YET ?

What Are YOU ...

To DO ...

¿ THEN ?

¿ Just Be Overrun ?

I

THINK

¡ NOT !

BE-CAUSE ...

THE REVOLUTION ...

IS

¡ WITHIN !

THE TRUE REVOLUTION ...

IS

IN

¡ YOU !

--- THERE ---

IS WHERE ...

YOU Will FIND ...

The TRUE REVOLUTION

The REVOLUTION ...

OF YOUR OWN ...

¡ CONSCIOUNESS !

THERE ...

IS WHERE ...

YOU WILL FIRST ...

¡ 'HEAR' OF IT !

This Next Psalm ...

Has More Than A Few ...

'Dated' ...

References

And SOME ...

That May No Longer BE ...

'Culturally ...

Correct'

And There Are a FEW ...

Which Make ...

EVEN ME ...

Kinda ... 'Cringe'

And YET ...

I 'Believe' ...

That It Makes Some Important Points

Not The Least of Which IS:

JUST HOW QUICKLY ...

THINGS CHANGE

AND YET ...

JUST HOW MUCH ...

THEY STAY ...

THE SAME

The Revolution ...

Will Be Like a High Tide ...

That Will RAISE ...

--- ALL ---

SHIPS

But ...

The Revolution ...

Will NOT ...

Be Televised

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Gil Scott-Heron

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¡ LISTEN !

You Will Not Be Able To Stay Home, Brother

You Will Not Be Able To Plug In
Turn On
And Cop Out

You will not be able to lose yourself on skag...
And skip out for beer during commercials...

Because...

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

The Revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox...
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions

The Revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon...
Blowing a bugle and leading a charge...
By John Mitchell, General Abrams, and Spiro Agnew...
To eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

The Revolution will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theatre...

And will not star Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen...
Or Bullwinkle and Julia

The Revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal

The Revolution will not get rid of 'The Nubs'

The Revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner

Because The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Brother

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May...
Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run...
Or trying to slide that color TV into a stolen ambulance

NBC will not be able to predict the winner at 8:32 on reports from 29 districts

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

There will be no pictures of 'pigs' shooting down Brothers on the instant replay

There will be no pictures of 'pigs' shooting down Brothers on the instant replay

There will be no pictures of Whitney Young...
Being run out of Harlem on a rail...
With a brand new process

There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy Wilkins...
Strolling through Watts...
In a red, black and green liberation jumpsuit...
That he had been saving for just the proper occasion

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction...
Will no longer be so damned relevant

And women will not care if Dick finally got down with Jane on 'Search for Tomorrow'...

Because Black People will be in the street...
Looking For...
A Brighter Day

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news

And no pictures of hairy-armed women liberationists
And Jackie Onassis blowing her nose

The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb or Francis Scott Key
Nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

The Revolution will not be right back after a message about a WHITE Tornado...
WHITE Lightning...
Or WHITE People

You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom
The tiger in your tank
Or the giant in your toilet bowl

The Revolution will not go better with Coke

The Revolution will not fight germs that may cause bad breath

The Revolution WILL put you in the driver's seat

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Will Not Be Televised
Will Not Be Televised
Will Not Be Televised

The Revolution Will Be No Re-run, Brothers

The Revolution Will Be...

¡ LIVE !

The Revolution ...
--- IS ---
¡ LIVE !