the same ding-dong thing,“Gee, I don’t know which of all these jobs I want?”AND “Say, why don’t all you companies take a neumbr for crissakes!”And, mind you, I want the good news to go on every frickin’dayI want to hear how millions are giving up smokingTaking up Pilates, volunteering for charity workThat everyone has two chickens in every potA good, well-built, American car in every garageAnd by that I mean one that gets 500 miles per fuel upTakes a 50 mile an hour crash with no damageOr injury to its passengersLasts as long as you frickin’ want to keep itAnd gets free tune-ups, brake jobs and tires while you own itI want to hear about scenic passenger trains making a come backHow scientists are being listened to … Hello!!!Got global warming on the runReplaced oil, nuclear power and natural gasFound a way to prevent alcoholismUsing the cure for cancer that we already haveAnd have begun to terra-form the Earth for god sakesI want to hear day after day of good newsSo that by the time the fourth day dawnsI’ll have some idea of what life is like in a world that makes senseSo that I’ll be looking forward to the next damned daySo that I’ll be glad to wake upDonate to good causes, of which there’ll be thousandsAnd every one of them will be doing very well thank you very muchI want all the guns in the world to be turned inBroken up and melted down to make … anything else!I want to hear that every soldier, intel wonk, officerCommando or insurgentHas renounced violence and are getting busy …Building shelters, planting trees, cleaning beachesCounseling hopeless, caring for the needyHanding out bread, bringing in waterGiving emergency care to the destituteRescuing cats from trees and kissing babiesI wanna see them all get busyFixing every leaky toilet, broken window, noisy refrigeratorAnd every god blessed pothole in the known universeThat they are working with farmers to grow more foodUnlocking potential, opening floodgatesApplying bandages, splints and helping, helping helping!I want to hear about bastard banksters making micro loans and giving grantsThat defense departments have been shut down!That research and development fundingIs going to making better computersCars, planes, trains, tractors, shoes, lights, batteries, houses, cities, colleges, schools, basketball and food courts!I want to hear about better understandingBetween religions, races, politicians, historical enemiesI want to hear about borders being erased, hatreds evaporatingIgnorance giving way … reason running rampantAnd every form of love being accepted by everyone everywhere!By god, I want a week of such good newsAs people have never ever, ever, EVER hadSo when I go outsideAnd get my free cup of fair trade, organic, sustainable coffeeAnd an organic “everything” bagel with a wild caught salmon schmearEveryone will be walking about more than a bit dazedMore than a bit confusedBut each and every one will be happy, happy, happy!Hallelujah,Brothers and sisters, but I yearn, dream and pray for such a weekI say I want a week of good newsA flood, an ocean, a sky full of wondersSo that every memory of this time; this horrific, festering butt holeThis stupid-assed, jack shit, fucked up universally acclaimedAnd God awful world of unholy, rank, festering, pustulant oozing scabsIs gone.   I say I want a week of good news, my friendsI say, I want a week of such good newsThat glory unbounded I know, I say, I just know, we all want to see!