The 2020 nonsenselist sits unfinished
Beside its prepaid if in the States
Envelope that is most definitely white
Unlike
The skin or blood of anyone
Who doesn't fit tight - in the boxes just right
Are you Part of the mass or part the massacred?
A native tribe? There's a whole list of them
And White means just about anything
But it's unclear if it means Jew

Me, my father and grandfather
Would be in different boxes in the 2020 nonsenselist
Which line should i follow
My Irish, Asian or English?
But come on
that's an easy one
Ask any Irish American
Who’s never been back to the homeland
The rolling lilting greenlands
They define me by my accent
But the forget they were once Black
Or at best just Black turned inside out
That wasn’t in the pamphlet that was handed out
On the boat to Ellis island
I guess My blood
Took a different boat than the blood you cling to

Top of the whites in the 2020 nonsenselist
Is German, and get this
You are most definitely welcome
But here
Is the catch,
Not if you were caught
with a finger on the switch
Of the chamber in Auschwitz
Which apparently did not even exist
Just like the jews
Who are not on this nonsenselist
Just like Global warming
And Pandemics and unheeded warnings
Or the bodies in mass graves on Hart island
Which despite the late coming - of spring - are not yet cold

There's a box for Africans
And African Americans
Or blacks from wherever they’re from
Noone really cares or really knows?
Because you’re good, your safe
Remember you were once slaves
There will always be a cage
Waiting here for you
Because
You
Are the true
American Dream
The great big black shiny
Money machine

Can you believe the Italians made the white cut?
I guess historys memory is pretty short
And Lebanese? Please?
Iranians? Jeez?
You couldn't make this shit up
Did anyone think to ask them what they thought?
This 2020 nonsenselist is so blatantly Racist
Here, get this
They just don't want the Mexicans and
There's no mention of jews

I Guess I'll mark myself as English
Make it easy for you to just dismiss
Any heritage any lineage
That you are so desperate to cling to
I've filled in the names and ages
But i still got 3 empty pages
Of white boxes
And i really haven't got a clue
I guess if my accent is English
Then my kids must be English
So how come my wife is still a jew?
Her kids are now English
Her husband is only English
She's got a pen in her hand
Oh my what's jewish girl to do?

But I almost forgot why I started this rant
Forgot what this 2020 nonsenselist is really about
No need to worry protest or shout
They don’t want any
Of us
Because
We’re just similar
enough
They just don’t want the Mexicans
The Hispanics or the Latin ones
They work way too hard
They have too much fun
But they’re small so you can fit
More of them in a pit
Of all of our shit
And pay them a pitance
To clean it all up

A white skinned red haired irish girl - English
A sallow skinned jewish asian boy- English
A sometimes brown in the summertime
Paler in the winter time jewish wife - Fuck it! English
Keep your head down
Forget you were once brown
Wouldn't life be easier in black and white?