It’s the first of the month again 🙂 This month’s poem isn’t a poem – it’s a song. In 2020 I rewrote Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire” and updated it to reflect on everything happening that year. Enjoy
Obama Gate, Bunker Boy, Kim Jong Un, fake death ploy
Trump’s Impeachment, Boris Johnson, Covid Quarantine
Bernie Saunders, Justin Trudeau, Britain’s Brexit,
Global Warming, Black Lives Matter, Murder of Epstein
Elon Musk, Space X, Eat the Rich, anti-vax
Bezos a trillionaire there’s recession ev’rywhere
Antifa terrorists – how do you believe all this?
New Dimension, Time flows backward, 2020s absurd
We didn’t start the fire
Australia’s burning
Just blame global warming
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
John Boyega, Brutal cops, Putin and Election Fraud
Kids in Cages, Trump tweets garbage, National Guard
Biden, Obama, Clinton’s email drama
Hong Kong riots, UFOs confirmed
Marvel, Endgame, X E A 12’s a name
Ben and Jerry’s, Skywalker, Karen wants a manager
Trans rights, Keep The T, J K Rowling, bigotry
Palestine, Israel, whole world’s gone to Hell
We didn’t start the fire
Australia’s burning
Just blame global warming
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Kpop Stans, Jake Paul loots, Revolution, some lick boots
Space force, Pepper spray, we playing jumanji?
Tiger King, Nature’s broke, Steve Irwin’s not a joke
Monkeys steal covid tests, murder hornets do the rest
Witches, Amish, Spiderman, who wrote this?
Hitler Youth, Fascism, try denying racism
Me too, Weinstein jailed, capitalism has now failed
Justin Bieber, oh no, Lennon’s Imagine though
We didn’t start the fire
Australia’s burning
Just blame global warming
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Birds of Prey, NASA, clean air, without a car
Many die, FAKE NEWS, Trump’s numbers show great views
Who drank sarcophagus juice? How did that tiger get loose?
Batman, poser, just a cosplay loser
Drone strikes, babygate, thousands die cause lockdowns late
Cannibal super rats, stormtrooper cop’s Nazi tats
We didn’t start the fire
Australia’s burning
Just blame global warming
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Gay marriage, abortion, incestuous president
Tear gas, church square, photoshoot, I swear
Puerto Rico Guillotine, gov bails out the airlines
Suleimani of Iran, USA Afghanistan
War on Drugs, Legal weed, social media content feed
Facebook bots, landlords suck, ah cab, donald duck
Avocado toast, awww, New York’s under martial law
Ocean plastic, melting ice, world can’t take it anymore
We didn’t start the fire
Australia’s burning
Just blame global warming
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on
We didn’t start the fire
Australia’s burning
Just blame global warming
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn’t start the fire
Australia’s burning
Just blame global warming
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
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