<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">New Norm</p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Tired of hearing of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">That New Norm.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Spooferizes a nasty</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">coming storm.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">All the people</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">will move somewhere</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Even if clad only in</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Underwear,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">For sure, all be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">In your hair.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Dough will get you</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Through for a while,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Capitalists continue to beguile,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Politikans talk a mile.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">What gets done</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Is next to none,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Most out there having fun,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Not wake up until we’re done.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Cooked like a chicken on a spit.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Poor ones on the move</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Hurt first,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> then certainly worst.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">No food in the roost,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">No ground water to boost,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Government stealing </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Double dealing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">People a reeling.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">How are you feeling?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Where does it lead,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Nature drew a bead</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">On our carbon fed deed,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">People we need to feed,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Warnings we need to heed,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Really soon now.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Afore we all bleed.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Do not talk to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Me about that</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">New Norm.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Get your back up</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Don’t trust luck,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Best to join the </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Young ones, go</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Run amok.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Don’t be a spitted cluck.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Ernie Carpenter</div></div></body></html>