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O.A.P.
Octogenarian – insurrection – insurrection – octogenarian
No longer about just tea and cake, but smashin’ the state
Never too late to make a revolution date
It’s a fait accompli, see them barricading with their zimmer
frames
Wrinkly resistance the name of the new game.
When you see them on the corner in the woolly bobble hats
They not leaning on canes but on baseball bats
Black studded leather cardigans and gats in their garters
At the given signal they roll them hats down into balaclavas.
They shuffle up in the bank queue, wait patiently in turn
No need to rush, when will the young learn?
When they reach the cashier, they pull whip the pistols from
their drawers:
“Get on the floor, bourgeois, and open the vault doors!”
Gang-bangin’ grannies, home-knitted woollens in red and black
They refusin’ their pension, the state can have it back
Organising autonomously at their annual organic vegan bake sales
When you’ve be free all your life, you have no fear of jail.
They breaking their crinkly comrades out of the care homes,
Hear them making their escape by the sound of creakin’ bones
Getaway cars race off at 20 miles per hour, |
So you time to read the bumper
sticker reading ‘Fight the power!’
Grannies leaning out the back windows keeping cover the shooter
Or riding shotgun on the back of a mobility scooter.
No longer marginalized
Their political views become radicalised
Too many times they been criticized
And their concerns trivialised.
No more hand-outs, or put-downs, or patronisation
Foundation … of the nation … if they refuse to be they can spark
a conflagration
Temptation … to believe they can be cast off
But investigate their cocktail parties and you find they mixing
molotovs.
So gather around children at the feet of Grandma Beatrice
Even with her arthritis she can make a fist
She got studs in her labret and a tattoo of Bakhunin
And she don’t mind you peeking at a her bright blue Mohican.
And hear the tale of our hero Alfredo Bonnano
Septuagenarian revolutionary still good to go
He be jailed for his part in the Battle of Greece
But pushing 80 he still yelling: “FUCK THA POLICE!” |
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- Presents
