This one I wrote about a month ago – feeling ticked off with zombies. With help from very good friends of Lost Poets – Elaine Illya Sharief. So, yeah we used this draft I had the we all chipped in wonderful words. This is the latest version (and grammatically correct-er). We first performed it at the ArtsForGrabs 2009 at The Annexe. Coolios.
Relax! Relax!
Relax! Relax! Relax!
They’ve got us all covered There are people to serve your breakfast in batik caps
Kulis to scrape & drape highways in orange uniforms
Like convicts to be extradited back
Boys with shell-hard helmets building your city body by body
Towers built upon bloodied racks
Relax! Relax! Relax!
They’ve got us all covered
With hired professionals to receive you at birth
Jab you with hepatitis and measles vaccines
Bless you in mosque, christen you in church
Mold you through education,
Scribble this scribble that, memorise this memorise that
With ready-made ideas
Fill in the blanks, join the dots & spit out comprehension
Shade this ABCD gray
See if you fit into their standards
Easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy
They employ you, give you discounted insurance,
Healthcare benefits, bonuses for holidays for assurance
Pay you to work
Pay you not to work
They print your money
So relax! Relax!
Enjoy the view, drink teh tarik and sit back, lepak and relax!
They’ve got astronauts in space, so be amused
Be proud of how your money is being used
Sit back, relax
They are just the people with all the ideas.
They take care of your shit, flushed down from your IKEA toilets
Hire Bumi immigrants and give them empty Hari Raya packets
So relax! Relax!
They’ve got your life covered
You paid for it!
They register you kid’s race, colour, standards and religion
They fill up birth forms for their census
Then Censor your reading materials but not your materialism
Relax! Relax!
We’ve got all the time in the world
It’s OK if you can’t get a taxi
You can ride straight to heaven in the
LRT -To KLCC or MId Valley
Where life shuffles along marble floors
And tangerine coloured mannequins
Stand frozen staring into shop windows
Relax relax relax
Learn to read
Read Self Help books
Help yourself
Pacify yourself
With titles like…
“Life for Dummies”
or
“Dummies for Dummies”
Or simply…
“Shut the fuck up”
Relax, si! Relax
Why are you being so langsi?
Rats crawling slowly
Now reversing.
Back front, get fat then flat.
We’re the rats
We’re the dirt
We’re the mother nerves of all the absurd
We eat and sleep, we only eat and sleep
Wake Up
Wake Up!
Wake up
Wake up wake up!
Relax Relax relax
Chew some grass
Herd together
Cows, pigs, chickens
Jump over the moon
Follow the farmer
Dance and stomp in circles to his tune
Tune into ONE station
Playing a mix of all the same hits
BFM, Big Fucking Man!
It’s nobody’s business but your own
Relax relax relax
Take a chill pill
Now make your own bed
And lay in it.
Relax.
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