More Bang for your Butts

Hundreds of grands to hire Dick Butts
To do otherwise would show smarts and guts
City Hall’s full of dinosaur f—wads
“moving forward” five decades backward.

They got LA freeways on their brains.
They want to make six lanes.
Peninsula and peeps feel the pain
Multi use lanes would ease the strain.
Bikes and buses is Now’s game.

Flintstones’ thinking’s so insane
Butts’s back room dealing is to blame.
He’s Petered-out Kelly’s man “butt” he’ll feign
“ignorance” “butt” idiocy’s HIS only name.

Rebury them from where they came.
Hire some cats with thinking brains
not saber-toothed duds who disclaim
the one fact they will not name:

They’re buried in the past’s glory game
and wealth for them’s the only aim.
—LA FREEWAY BLUES WOMAN

This article appears in Sep 15-21, 2011.