The botherhood is tired of being jack’d around by the motor-man. (BikeableCommunities.org)

The Revolution will NOT be Motorized!
You will not be able to super glide, mybrother.
You will not be able to gas up, burn out or cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for gas fueled beer runs,
Because the revolution will not be Motorized.

The revolution will not be Motorized.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Pep-Boys or Kragens
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of  Model Ts
honking its horn and leading a charge by Henry Ford,
Lee Iacocca, John DeLorean or Carroll Shelby to eat
hamburgers, french fries and shakes from a Bob’s Big Boy drive-through.
The revolution will not be Motorized

The revolution will not be brought to you by
Porsche or Audi and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will permanently ensconce critical mass in the culture of your future.
The revolution will make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be Motorized, Freddie.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be Motorized.

There will be no pictures of pigs running down
brother freddies in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs running down
brother freddies in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Pedal people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be Motorized.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o’clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be Motorized.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver’s seat.

The revolution will not be Motorized, will not be Motorized,
will not be Motorized, will not be Motorized.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be pedaled.

¿QuiErEs ChingasoS AnImAuX?

Adapted from Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution will not be Televised”