There’s No Business Like Showbusiness:
Coolidge Revised
America’s business isn’t business,
Not in the country’s declining century.
The nation now wallows in Gee Whizzness
Over violent films, David Lynchery,
And all that gruesome stuff. Everyone’s got
Dumb earphones, iPhones, webphones in their heads,
And those who haven’t, have happily bought
Porno DVDS to play by their beds.
The word “Madonna” has a wholly new
Spin . . . used to be a Virgin; the hot tip
Now’s that she will get a billion to do
Her saucy thing for five years on the Strip.
The Yanks flock to their multiplexes, malls.
China rises. The Republic falls.