Yes, in an exceptionally good mood today.  Must be that radiation from Japan in the rain.  Anyway, have this Joni Mitchell melody (or melodies) in my head.  So, let’s be UPBEAT.  Enjoy.

   OCCUPIED

I had this dream

It’s crazy I know

About how I’d like to see

Things in this country go

Seems yesterday

All the people took to the streets

Cops couldn’t beat ’em back

Oh it was really sweet

They surrounded Wall Street

The Pentagon and Congress

Marched to the White House

Made the President address them

He said: Okay we give up

What is it you all need?

An end to the stupid wars?

All the corruption and greed?

The people all yelled: Oh no

We’re here to occupy

So get the hell out of the doorway

We’re sick of all the lies!

And so we occupied

We changed everything around

Brought the National Guard home

So they could round up CEOs

And make them work to atone

Got back all our civil rights

And health care for all

Trashed all our credit cards

And bulldozed all the malls

And it wasn’t all that hard

And we had a lot of fun

People were dancing and singing:

Hey this is how you get things done!

And when the Bad Boys resisted

And tried to take a bigger piece of pie

We took all their cash

And told them: You’ve been occupied!

And yes we occupied

That’s how we occupied

But I woke up from my dream

It’s just another apathetic day

Boyfriend’s asleep on the couch

He left the TV on all night to play

I said: Wake up you asshole!

We’ve got a lot of work to do

We’re all in this thing together

And that means you too!

He said: What the hell?

And my cat jumped up on his chest

I told him all about my dream

And what I’d do to him unless

He got up off his lazy ass

And helped me make revolution

Without any compromises

Or male convolutions

And so we hit the streets

But he still wanted to know

Just what the hell we were doing

Couldn’t I just let things go?

And I said: Baby I love you

But sometimes you don’t even try

So now just do what I tell you to do

Cause Baby–You’ve been occupied!

Yes you’ve been occupied

And that’s how we’re gonna occupy

Yes we’ll occupy!

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt.

(Ya know, Convolutions would be a good name for a cat.)