The Revolution Will Not Be…
The Revolution Will Not Be Online
(apologies and thanks to GSH)
You will not be able to stay home, brother and sister.
You will not be able to log in, friend it and unfriend it.
You will not be able to lose yourself in YouTube or Facebook,
Put on your bluetooth headphones and download it,
Because the revolution will not be online.
The revolution will not be online.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Apple,
Microsoft or Intel in versions one, two, three or seven.
The revolution will not show you movies of Johnny Depp
riding the Afflac duck with Christian Bale as Batman
while bin Laden followers make suicide videos.
The revolution will not be online.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the
National Endowment for the Arts and will not star
Tom Hanks and Jennifer Aniston or Matt Damon and Megan Fox.
The revolution will not give you whiter teeth.
The revolution will not get rid of belly fat with one rule.
The revolution will not have you broadcast yourself,
Because the revolution will not be online, brother and sister.
There will be no pictures of you and Lindsey Lohan
driving SUV’s through Starbucks for frappuccinos,
or staggering at Coco de Ville.
CNN online will not predict Armageddon at 8:32,
show the poll results for what is truth,
or have analysts comment on the approval rating
for the incoming administration,
because the kingdom will be in the streets,
living out the new way.
The revolution will not be online.
There will be no videos of Rick Warren purposefully strolling down
the streets of paradise.
There will be no videos of John Spong transforming
Episcopal churches into entertainment venues one stone at a time.
There will be no music videos of Cardinal Mahoney riding the
immigrant-only float decorated with aborted babies down
Figueroa wearing a helicopter-themed robe
while liturgical dancers act out his accomplishments
as conservatives shout protests in Latin.
Wikipedia, Twitter and blogs will no longer be the source for truth,
and no one will care if Avril quit her marriage or
which celebrity went into rehab this week.
Nothing worth having will be sold on eBay and
Google will have no hits at all because people
will be finding what they searched for.
The revolution will not be online.
There will be no soundbite media clips
or CNBC analysis of sign-waving conservative
or liberal nutjobs.
Mother Teresa will not salve Wall Street’s wounds
while Bishop Sheen excoriates protesting master catechists.
The soundtrack will not be written by Elton John,
Danny Elfman or Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The title song will not be sung by Beyonce, Britney,
or Rascal Flatts.
The revolution will not be online.
The revolution will not be right back after a 15-second advertisement
about evolving, cavemen, or finding pants that fit.
You will not have to worry about saving $400 on car insurance,
renegotiating your mortgage, or town hall meetings.
The revolution will not be life on Blackberry.
The revolution will not expect more and save money.
The revolution is not the network.
The revolution will be where it begins.
The revolution will not be online, will not be online,
will not be online, will not be online.
The revolution will be no most popular video, brothers and sisters;
The revolution will be live.