A Long Tail

Nyack, Rockland County, Empire State
Roman Catholic mass jam packed
the Mazzaratti twins become May brides
Rosemarie to Brian, Camille to Rob
by wedlock joined
to the inner circle of 120 O'Malleys,strong
come by marriage or through the uterus,
several choosing to keep their husband's name post divorce
have also been invited
as often they are to family wakes and family balls

If you count the O'Malleys in the other states,
thousands of O'Malley's there might be US of A
and if you tally those in Canada down to Jamaica
and further south to Tierra Del Fuego
and east across the Pacific to Australia and New Guinea
and throw in Asia, Europe and Africa
the O'Malleys could number in the hundreds of thousands
some as black as Wesley Snipes
some as white as Nicole Kidman
though it's doubtful, that the O'Malleys
could be more numerous than the clan of Chang
a 100 million on the Chinese Mainland,
and 30 million in Hong Kong

Well, the O'Malleys have their history
as does every species except those extinguished
like Neanderthal and other creatures
the dodo bird in Madagascar and in Tibet, the Yeti
in Scotland, the Loch Ness monster
may by now have also been extincted

The first O'Malleys came to America
fleeing the Great Famine which had its origins with the Spaniards
returned from Lima, taking with them potatoes to Europa
where studs before were unknown but soon became the diet

It wasn't just Mr. Potato who drove the Irish out of Ireland
For centuries, there sat upon the British rump seat
a lineage of Herod who routinely bayoneted Celtic babies
Life became too unbearable and America a siren's call
for the bravest and the most desperate
and here and there, a hardened criminal

Genocide is the sewerage of remembrance
water under the bridge long after it's run its course
The Mazzaratti clan their own Sicilian mess
But that was when, and now is now... 20o9 Anno Domini

The world awaits dramatic change, BHO in the White House
the SOBs finally gone, good riddance to them one and all
particularly the Vice President and his Secretary of War
Cheney and Rumsfeld, who if they were to go to a dance macabre
as Heinrich Himmler and Eichmann dressed
they'd sooner cut the mustard
than me in drag, hair dyed and pressed
could ever pass for a Valkyrie

Change is coming?
Like it or not, it comes like the dawn
I've seen Lennon rock and blown away
I've seen moon walks, and a Michael turned into alien
I've seen parades, ferocious dogs
their owners growl and rave Confederate
and the National Guard march as to war
all for the cause to integrate a girl
not much older than Little Orphan Annie
I've seen Twin Towers go puff the magic dragon

Me and the A bomb were dropped together;
the bomb on the Japs, me on the Bronx
Bet your bottom dollar, I've seen change
coming and going