Stand on Your Knees The south is attempting to rise again, Entrenched wealth, Verses the new high tech billionaires. Fundamentalists fighting back, The only way they know how, By burning down the house if necessary, Backing up all the toilets in the senate, Storming the White House with knives and pitch forks! In the D.C. area they know the difference, Between an extinct species, Such as a republican environmentalist, And an endangered species, Including, any liberal democrat. Hahahahaha, I'm hunting wabbit! That wascally wabbit, wants taxes! And, he has a million-trillion cousins! Its not enough just to take your money, These characters want your soul as well, Dishonoring the memory of the Hatfield's and McCoys! Some of us still remember where paradise lay, And it was never in the middle of the D.C. swamp! The heat is the worst in the country, which explains, Why nearby Bull Run was the beginning of the civil war. They've fried each other brains, with all the fucking hot air! Stand on your knees, if you ever wish to hope to rise yet again, Because clowns are paid big bucks to fall on their ass in this town!
This poem is a great example of the use of popular characters and metaphors in Rainbow Warrior poetry. However, if you notice the character of Elmer is portrayed as a southerner and our poems treat the characters sometimes differently. Normally though, our goal is to use characters that are ideal in every way imaginable, including Socrates, Alice in Wonderland, and Jimmi Hendrix. Even Q from Star Trek has become widely accepted by Oneness Poetry fans as ideal for our poetry. Whenever possible, our poems merely contain song lyrics, common phrases, and characters from popular literature, and we almost always recognize immediately what works best. For example, you can use either "busybacksoon" from Whinnie the Poo fame, or rickiticitavi from Rudyard Kipling for the same character and swap between them even. The whole idea is to conflate the identity of everything, including space and time, by making our poems as vague and minimalistic, yet complete, as it is humanly possible to achieve. Computers are already starting to write their own Oneness Poems.
