The Unbearable Fecklessness Of Being

(Like man the young can teach the old–Words of wisdom about the ‘karma’ of Fukushima from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s new twenty-something PR DUDE.)

well like all this responsibility

stuff is like soooo sixties man

so the fucking reactor broke a little?

no biggie  haven’t you ever

had your coffee maker glitch-out?

and what about the brakes on your car?

man like shit happens  get over it

you didn’t get your Social Security check?

hey man those people are really stressed

it’s all this responsibility crap

that makes all the world’s problems

you ought to lighten up and chill

go with the flow and stop bitching

like times have changed man

you have some kind of superiority complex?

you ought to sign up for my Workshop

it’s very Zen  all about how responsibility

is responsible for making people uptight

and nervous and prone to fuck-up even more

throw the Earth’s karma out of whack

make everybody feel like they’ve got to

fix everything  man if it ain’t broke

don’t fix it  and if it is broke

well who fucking like gives a shit?

look at our leaders  do you see them

getting all ripped about every little thing?

like this global warming?  so what the fuck?

you fucking like winter man?  and the wars?

those are because everybody’s telling

everybody about being responsible

like they’re somebody’s mother or something

when you go with the flow you don’t

get all stressed and then you don’t fuck-up

and like everything takes care of itself

cause I’m telling you man…I don’t need

to hear another goddamn radiation rap man

I’m doing maybe the best I can at this shitty job

they’re not paying me enough for more stress

I like think Barack Obama is really cool

he’s not into this responsibility trip

he’s going with the flow and I’ll bet you

he takes a few good hits now and then

maybe that’s what you need man?  I can get

you some really good shit  mellow your stress

make you hip and hop into the twenty-first century  

and look at things the way they ought to be

looked at  like who gives a fuck about anything

anymore?  right?  you need to get laid man

like I know this seventeen year old chick…

man…responsibility?  some kind of word they

ought to politically correct out of our language

radiation?  like I give a flying shit-fuck

it’ll just go away  like everything else does

man don’t you have more important things

to worry about?  like going to the mall

and buying yourself some duds that don’t

make you look so frigging OLD man?

I’ve got to go now  and like if I hit someone

driving home or cause a ten car pile-up with

people killed or whatever…well shit happens

I work for the fucking government  you think

I’m going to get fired from this shit-eating

job because somebody got dead?  get real man

you can’t change the whole fucking world

so forget about it  only fucking God can like

change the world and I guess if He wanted to

the dude would have done it already

why don’t you get on His case about radiation man?

and make Him stop all this fucking rain  

for some reason it’s making me itch  go figure    

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt…man