Homage to "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", heard on the radio Monday morning

The Revolution was not televised
Nor Martinized or any way ized
Jerry Reubens wears a suit
The Revolution was not televised
Revised or super-sized
The cameras were all in Vietnam
The revolution was not televised
Scrutinized or homogenized
The Kent State dead are ashes in our mouths
The long hair is gone with the dreams and hopes
A slave to society
Demoted to third world status and stripped of morality, mortality, in certain finality
The revolution was not televised
Or sanitized or securitized
We sold our children out
The revolution was not televised
Prioritized or hermaphrodized
The barefoot girl in Calgary an ancient dream
The sounds of her recorder taps for an unfinished battle
Weed soaked minds in smoky trailer houses
Contemplate Chicago conventions
Lives wasted
Washington fat cats and running dogs
The revolution was not televised
Evangelized or whitenized
Haight-Ashbury is a ghetto of the mind
Timothy Leary’s dead
The revolution was not televised
demilitarized or sur-prised
Te revolution was not televised
The revolution was not televised
Neither white nor dark achieved freedom
The wealthy cut their hair and went back to work
The revolution was not televised
Ghosts of forgotten soldiers wander Brady street
Cold Black wall for the rest
The revolution was not televised
our young still die in rich man’s wars
The revolution was not televised
Hippies turn to mysticism
Sell tie dyed shirts by the side of the road
The revolution was not televised
Nor VHSitized or digitized
Its smoldering ember behind aged eyes
The revolution was not televised