I Approve This Message

I am the donut lady
I am the civil engineer
I am the tractor salesman who's a stand-
Up comic at his daughter's wedding
I am the court reporter

I am the guy in the sandwich suit
I am the third grade teacher and I approve this message
I am the dental hygienist
I am the undertaker's son
I'll be the undertaker when the undertaker has been taken under
I am the tattoo addict
I am the runner-up Miss Maine
I am the ice cream vendor and I approve this message

I am John the Baptist
And I am Nancy the Presbyterian
And I'm Jerome the Jewish Unitarian
Born-again Buddhist Wiccan agnostic
I am the banjo lawyer
I am the laptop Kerouac
I am the NASCAR widow and I approve this message
I am the conspiracy theorist
And I know five other conspiracy theorists

What? You think that's a coincidence?

I am the precinct walker
And I am the polling place volunteer
And I'm the statistician and four out
Of five of me approve this message

I am Yip Harburg saying
It don't matter how high the throne
What sits on it is the same as your own
And I'm Molly Ivins saying
What's the difference who's in that chair?
Change doesn't come from there
Change comes from here

I am the huddled masses
I am the amber waves of grain
I am the toothless carny in the shooting gallery at the county fair
I am the singer-songwriter waitress
And I am another mother for peace
I am the assistant scoutmaster and I approve this message

I am the White House switchboard operator and I approve this message
And I am the FAA air traffic controller
Who was discharged because, well, why not?
And I am that FAA air traffic controller who was
Reinstated with back pay and I approve this message
And I am the middle school principal who
Wins the lottery and keeps on working

And I am and I approve this message
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