Ode to Gil Scott Heron
Remember when they told us that Whitey’s
on the moon?
Rushing to get there before the Russian
Whities can beat them to the moon?
In the middle of pitched civil rights battles
Whitey planted that American flag
none too soon on the moon
Every boy and girl held their breath for
eagle to land, those Whities on the moon
But no one believes it anymore,
it looks that we’ve been had
Buzz Aldrin had to take to the bottle
because lying made him sad
Now that he is sober again,
he tells the kids the truth
“It didn’t happen,” we heard his tone
Whitey spent nearly $30 billion trying
to fly Whitey to the moon
In the end, Kubrick took the crew
to stage a fake landing,
dropping many clues
10% of Americans don’t believe that narrative of Whitey on the moon
They would sooner believe that Elvis lives
than Whitey’s been to the moon
