A Poem about Freedom of Speech
IF EVER YOU HAD ANY DOUBT THE NERVE,
OF THIS OR ANY SORT OF GIRL
LEAVE THE TRIALS OF HOME BIRTH ALONE,
OR THE STRAIN OF TWO AM, THE BABE UNKNOWN
I WILL PRAISE THE STUFF OF THEM,
WHO WITHOUT BARBIE, WITHOUT KEN
THEY TOOK THEM TO A CHURCH TO STORM,
BRINGING DOWN TEN THOUSAND AWFUL LAWFUL KINDS OF HARM,
COCK A SNOOT, at MR P
WHO GRINDS HIS ENEMIES BEHIND THE TREE!
WITH HIS SPECIAL HIDEOUS PITILESS BRAND OF POISONOUS GLEE!
THEY TOOK THEM, TO THE CHURCH
TO DENOUNCE THE WRONGS EMERGE
THAT ANY FOOLS KNEW TO SAY
WAS DOOMED AND NOW TUNED GROOMED TO A FEISTY SONG
ABOUT THE WRONGS
“Congregations genuflect
Black robes brag, golden epaulettes reflect
Freedom’s phantom’s gone to heaven
Gay Pride’s chained and in detention”
THERE THEY STORMED, INSIDE THE CHURCH
UN-PROTECTED BY THE BREAST THAT NURTURED
BABIES CRAZIES THESE WHOLLY FOOLS.
WHO WOULD SCREAM AT POOTIES GRUESOME DANG ‘ROUS TOOLS.
PUTEES PALACE GUARDS’LL KNOW
AS HE BARES HIS TEETH
AND GRINDS E’EN SO.
THE GROUND IS LITTERED WITH HIS DEAD
DID YOU SEE,
WHAT THESE BRAVE GIRLS SAID?
THEY AREN’T WORRIED ‘BOUT THE POISONED KNOB,
THEY DEMANDED FREEDOM, THATS THEIR JOB!
“Does your vagina have a brand?_ _ _Let your vagina start a band _ _If your vagina lands in prison _ _Then the world is gonna listen _ _My vagina is tough and dangerous _ _Shaking up the major labels _ _Vagina gonna take the stage _ __Cause vagina’s got a lot to say”
THESE BRAVE FRAILS
WITH GUITARS AND VOICE,
THEY $EE NO NEED
OF MERCHANT$ NOI$E
THEY SHOOK THEIR FISTS AND SANELY BRAVELY REFRAINLY MOCKED
WHERE ONCE UPON THESE SHORE,
WHERE ONLY NATO, STALKED.
WEARING NO ARMOR,
BUT THEIR HEARTS
WHAT THESE BRAVE LADIES DARED TO START!
“Don’t play stupid, don’t play dumb
Vagina’s where you’re really from
(Where you from? Where you from? Vagina!)
(Where you from?)
Don’t play stupid, don’t play dumb
Vagina’s where you’re really from
(Where you from? Where you from? Vagina!) (Where you from?)”
WHEN ARMIES THREATEN AND MISSILES POSED
THESE SOULFUL WOMEN PUT ON SHOWS
SO BRAVELY SHOUT – TAUGHT THESE WOMEN FINE
THAT ALL THOSE GENRALS AND POOTIES SPYCRAFT CANNOT FIND!
WE SAW THESE MASK MARAUDER GIRLS
NO MAKEUP, FAKEUP, BLISTERED KURLS
STAND UP LIKE THAT SINGLE MAN TO TANK
IN BLOODY TIENAMEN, WHERE THE CORPSES STANK
“You’re electrocuting my nerves_ _
_ _I don’t trust you today_ _
_ _Police baton on my ribs_ _
_ __I’m singing with blood today”_ _
THROUGH MASKS THEY DENOUNCED THOSE DANGEROUS FOOLS,
PRONOUNCED THOSE WHO WITH TORTURES, POLONIUM
POISONS, PRISONS RULE
ENOUGH THEY SHOUTED!
WE BRAVE THE CAGE
FOUGHT THEM FOR THEIR FREEDOM
FROM OUT THEIR STAGE!
“Woah now man, I’m losin focus_ _ _
_ _ _Va jay jay on hocus pocus_ _
_ _Don’t act like you don’t notice_ _
_ __Girls run it like U.S. Open”
ALLY-O-KINA
ARRESTED SEVEN TIMES, UNBURIED YET
SHE SERVED HER TIME
BRAVE RIGHT THERE IN POOTIES FACE
DECLINED TO RESIGN, SHE STANDS IN PLACE
INSTEAD THEY STOOD AND SANG SO BRAVELY SAGELY GRACED!
ALLY-O-KINA, TEACH YOUR DAUGHTERS HER NAME,
WITH BRAVE MALALA, WHO IT
SEEMED ONLY WANTED SCHOOLGIRL DREAMS
THESE OUTRAGEOUS DANG’ROUS WOMEN NO LONGER USED LIKE TOOLS OF FOOLS
ALLY-O-KINA , DELIV’RY GIRL, STEPPED OUT, DISGUISED, TOOK ON THE WORLD
SUCH JEWELS!
NO LONGER NEEDED HEEDING MASKED RETREATING TASKED! TRIUMPHED AT LONG
LAST!
SHE BRAVELY GAVE BLOODY POOTIE A BEATING!
THOUGH ALL THE FORCES ALIGNED FREEDOM CONCEDING
AGAINST HIM, NEEDLING !THESE BRAVE YOUNG WOMEN,
TRIED TO CONVINCE HIM,
AND THEN IN VICTORIOUS SONG JUST RINSED HIM!
TOOK TO THE STAGES IN GLORIOUS RAGES,
TO LEAD THEIR FELLOW RUSSIANS ON
TO FREEDOMS PAGES
“_Putin is lighting the fires of revolution _
He’s bored and scared of sharing silence with the people _ _
_ _ _With every execution: _ __
_ _ the stench of rotten ash With every long sentence: a wet dream”
SHE HAS MIGRATED ACROSS THE BORDER OF DISORDER_
AND OF MEANING TO RECONNOITER
DISGUISED AS A FREE EUROPEAN HUMAN BEING_
WILL WE JOIN HER IN THE VOYAGE_?
BACK TO HUMAN RIGHTS_
AWAY FROM MERCHANTS PURCHASED SPOILAGE? _
Pussy Riot – Vanguard of the FUTURE!_
NOTE: the red/italics are from their lyrics (translated)