<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;">Occupy Wall Street<br class=""> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;"><i class=""><font size="3" class="">We need global<br class="">citizens for some sit-ins<br class="">again.<br class="">I say we all meet<br class="">on Wall Street<br class="">and lock down--<br class="">lock the whole block down!</font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;"><font size="3" class=""><span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps;" class="">[</span>Drew Dellinger<span style="font-variant: small-caps;" class="">, 2001]</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;"> <br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;">I take exception to the rule<br class="">of the greedy and the cruel.<br class=""><br class="">This fall, school’s in session<br class="">and the lesson is Wall Street.<br class="">It’s time for action<br class="">and your name’s on the call sheet.<br class="">It’s time we all meet<br class="">and name what it is:<br class="">the game has been rigged<br class="">to enrich corporate<br class="">business interests that sent this economy spinning.<br class="">Charlie Sheen is not the only clueless dude that thinks he’s winning.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;">See, the one percent done spent all the rent.<br class="">And now the rent’s due, so we’re coming to a tent near you.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;">We’re the like-minded ninety-nine percent<br class="">standing up to corruption with loving dissent.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;">We stand for justice,<br class="">and the future,<br class="">and all of humanity. <br class="">Embracing all people.<br class="">Yes, even Sean Hannity.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;">The message is simple:<br class="">greed, injustice, and eco-destruction have to go.<br class="">Pay attention corporate media. We’ll try to say it slow.<br class=""><br class="">It’s time to<br class="">rock the nation,<br class="">rock this occupation.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;">It’s time for the people to peacefully fight back.<br class="">Tell Congress and the media we’re taking the mic back.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;">Tell the jaded it’s that long-awaited revolution.<br class="">Put away the pepper spray and re-read the Constitution.<br class="">These cops are paid to go crazy, yo.<br class="">But we’re peaceful.<br class="">Don’t tase me, bro.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;">We came to incite insight,<br class="">unite and discuss this.<br class="">We came to hang, and to bang the drums of justice.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;">Let’s occupy<br class="">with our love and our light.<br class=""><br class="">Let’s occupy<br class="">the earth and the sky,<br class="">and live with all beings<br class="">as a planet-wide tribe.<br class=""><br class="">Occupy the divine mind residing inside.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;">See, I’m the type writer<br class="">that’s known to light fires<br class="">and prone to inspire<br class="">the moment’s own higher desire.<br class=""><br class="">‘Cause history knows it’s the time<br class="">for resisting the team at the scene of the crime.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;">Tell your friends I’ll meet ‘em there at Freedom Square.<br class="">They can’t stop us, from Seattle to Chiapas.<br class="">It’s our mission to envision<br class="">what comes after the catastrophe.<br class="">How do we move past<br class="">the capitalist disaster?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;">Our communities need us.<br class="">We are all leaders.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;">How could we ask for anything less than the future?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 24px !important;"><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Drew Dellinger<br class=""></p></body></html>