You will not be able to stay home Brothers and Sisters.
You will not be able to plug in, log on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself in thought and slip; slip out for a Starbucks coffee  during commercials, because the Revolution will not be televised.
The Revolution will not be televised.
The Revolution will not be brought to you by the Apple iPhone 5,6,7,8 and 9 without commercial interruptions.
The Revolution will not show you pictures of President Donald Trump blowing a horn like Gabriel, and leading a charge by Attorney Jeff Sessions to eat fried chicken with a little crow, confiscated from the Church of The Poison “MEMES.”
The Revolution will not be televised.
The Revolution will not be brought to you by CNN or FOX NEWS.
The Revolution will not star Wolverine or The Incredible Hulk or Morgan Freeman or Kim Kardashian.
The Revolution will not inject collagen in your butt to make it plumper and firmer and sexier; because the Revolution won’t care.
There will be no YouTube of you and Rodney King pushing that shopping cart down the block to a dead end street or trying to slide that Plasma television into a stolen car.
Fox News will not be able to predict another winner at 8:30 or report from 29 Districts and have it unconstitutionally approved by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Revolution will not be televised.
There will be no YouTube of Whitney Houston singing “I Will Always Love You,” and there will be no YouTube of The Reverend Al Sharpton strolling through D.C. in a Red, Black and Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving for just, “Such and Such an emergency”.
Reality TV will no longer be so damned relevant, and Donald Trump’s apprenticeship for president will be revealed for what it really is: THE APPRENTICE ; while Americans will be too busy in the streets looking for a better day.
The Revolution will not be televised!
There will be no highlights on the Eleven O’clock news and no YouTube of female liberationists protesting and screaming, “Keep your laws off our bodies.”
The theme song will not be written by Quincy Jones, nor rapped by Kanye West or Gil Scott Heron himself.
The Revolution will not be televised.
The Revolution will not be right back after a few messages about D.A.C.A., school shootings or illegal aliens.
The Revolution will not deny criminal prosecution of those who nearly bankrupted our Economy in 2008; Only to prosecute the true PATRIOTIC VICTIMS who kept the faith. You will not have to worry about a bail out for big banks, Wall Street being too big to fail or a Government shut down.
The Revolution will not be bottled like God-given free water and sold for a profit.
The Revolution will not fight foreign Wars on Foreign Lands only to come back home to be bamboozled by the likes of Paulson, Bernanke, and Alan Greenspan.
And at the end of the day, The Revolution will not bail out Wall Street but Main Street, because the Revolution:
Will not be Televised!
Will not be Televised!!
Will not be Televised!!!
The Revolution will be no Re-run Brothers and Sisters!
The Revolution will be LIVE!!!

“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” was originally written by jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron in 1971. It has been revised here by Bobby Richardson of the Benicia First Tuesday poets for the present day. This updated version was an honorable mention in the city of Benicia’s Law Day contest.

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