Berlin cracks, Soviet fall,
Mandela walking, Balkan brawl,
Kuwait burns, Desert Storm,
CNN makes warfare normal.
Rodney King, LA flame,
O.J. turns murder into fame,
NAFTA signed, factories roam,
Wall Street richer, towns lose home.
Rwanda screams, the world looks past,
Dayton peace that barely lasts,
Dot-com gold, Clinton lies,
Schoolyard bullets, Columbine.
Florida counts, hanging chads,
Supreme Court chooses, country mad,
Twin towers fall from a clear blue sky—
America asks who, not always why.
Patriot Act, Guantánamo,
“Mission Accomplished,” nowhere to go,
Baghdad falls, no weapons found,
Shock and awe shakes up the ground.
Abu Ghraib, Katrina flood,
Banks get champagne, streets get mud,
Housing crashes, Lehman dies,
Taxpayer money socialized.
Obama wins, “Yes We Can,”
Drones above Afghanistan,
Tea Party rage, WikiLeaks,
Snowden shows what freedom means.
Occupy, Ferguson, Black Lives Matter,
Congress stalls while wages scatter,
Facebook feeds the anger machine,
Then Trump arrives through the TV screen.
MAGA hats, border walls,
Charlottesville and midnight calls,
Mueller files, impeachment twice,
Truth gets sold at market price.
COVID spreads, freezer trucks,
Zoom-school kids and stimulus bucks,
Masks become a party test,
Half the country fights the rest.
George Floyd, cities fill,
January Sixth on Capitol Hill,
Roe goes down, states decide,
Culture war on overdrive.
Ukraine burns, Gaza bleeds,
TikTok rage and algorithm feeds,
AI talks, the deepfakes bloom,
Billionaires prepare for Mars and doom.
Prices jump, the climate cooks,
Everyone’s got their own set of facts and books,
Tariffs, migrants, guns and fear,
Another “most important election” every year.
SpaceX flies, Boeing stalls,
Amazon boxes fill the halls,
World Cup lands in twenty-six—
Stars and stripes and politics.
And through it all the empire says:
“Everything’s fine, just check the Dow.”
Thirty-seven years of smoke—
So who exactly owns the fire now?
Mandela walking, Balkan brawl,
Kuwait burns, Desert Storm,
CNN makes warfare normal.
Rodney King, LA flame,
O.J. turns murder into fame,
NAFTA signed, factories roam,
Wall Street richer, towns lose home.
Rwanda screams, the world looks past,
Dayton peace that barely lasts,
Dot-com gold, Clinton lies,
Schoolyard bullets, Columbine.
Florida counts, hanging chads,
Supreme Court chooses, country mad,
Twin towers fall from a clear blue sky—
America asks who, not always why.
Patriot Act, Guantánamo,
“Mission Accomplished,” nowhere to go,
Baghdad falls, no weapons found,
Shock and awe shakes up the ground.
Abu Ghraib, Katrina flood,
Banks get champagne, streets get mud,
Housing crashes, Lehman dies,
Taxpayer money socialized.
Obama wins, “Yes We Can,”
Drones above Afghanistan,
Tea Party rage, WikiLeaks,
Snowden shows what freedom means.
Occupy, Ferguson, Black Lives Matter,
Congress stalls while wages scatter,
Facebook feeds the anger machine,
Then Trump arrives through the TV screen.
MAGA hats, border walls,
Charlottesville and midnight calls,
Mueller files, impeachment twice,
Truth gets sold at market price.
COVID spreads, freezer trucks,
Zoom-school kids and stimulus bucks,
Masks become a party test,
Half the country fights the rest.
George Floyd, cities fill,
January Sixth on Capitol Hill,
Roe goes down, states decide,
Culture war on overdrive.
Ukraine burns, Gaza bleeds,
TikTok rage and algorithm feeds,
AI talks, the deepfakes bloom,
Billionaires prepare for Mars and doom.
Prices jump, the climate cooks,
Everyone’s got their own set of facts and books,
Tariffs, migrants, guns and fear,
Another “most important election” every year.
SpaceX flies, Boeing stalls,
Amazon boxes fill the halls,
World Cup lands in twenty-six—
Stars and stripes and politics.
And through it all the empire says:
“Everything’s fine, just check the Dow.”
Thirty-seven years of smoke—
So who exactly owns the fire now?