Ode To Gil Scott Heron (with a lunar political plot twist)

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