Let Them Eat Cake - Malvina Reynolds

Let them eat cake,

Said Marie Antoinette.

So they chopped off her head

Until she was dead.

The solution was drastic,

The story’s fantastic,

They talk of it yet.

Let them eat cake,

So they feed us on cake.

It’s loaded with sugar,

The flavor’s a fake.

We think we have eaten,

They say it’s a treat,

But when it’s all over

Our stomach says, «Buddy, when do we eat!»

Let them eat cake,

So they feed us on lies,

Icky with color,

They dazzle the eyes.

They sound and they sound

As though something’s been said,

But the questions we’re asking

Keep rolling around in our head.

Let them eat cake,

Said Marie Antoinette,

So they feed us on twinkies

While they eat the meat,

They stuff us with plastic,

They tell us it’s great,

And we gag at the colored pollution

They put on the plate.

Let them eat cake

From the frozen food bin,

A concoction of nothing

With air beaten in,

We eat and are hungry,

Their word is a lie,

And if we leave their heads on

We’ll die.