Mark Small

Dear Mr Neil Young: As Republican Party precinct committee person (“PC”) for Washington Township, 21-02, Marion County, Indiana (on the north side of Indianapolis), I must express my displeasure. 1/16

Your reaction to the trump campaign’s use of several of your songs is unfair and, because of your recent acquisition of U.S. citizenship, an expression that belies ignorance of the American way of life. 2/16

First, if not you, to whom would trump’s campaign turn to plagiarize? Given the rampant orgies of molestation surrounding trump’s recently deceased pal Jeffrey Epstein, a campaign ditty to the tune of Nugent’s “Jail Bait” is unseemly. 3/16

Second, what does he do for a second “artist”? That leaves trump in a pickle - no metaphor to long, cylindrical things intended; from media accounts “long” and “trump” do not appear in the same biography. 4/16

Third, such artists as Sir Elton John already have denied trump’s campaign access to music garbed in rainbows. However, Mr. Young, Sir Elton is not an American citizen, schooled, as have been many of trump’s former attorneys, in our laws. 5/16

By the way, several of your albums are grossly unappreciated. “Journey Through the Past” (soundtrack and concert), “On the Beach” and “Tonight’s the Night” are brilliant. Double albums had utilitarian value. A single album was appreciated for sifting seeds from herbage. 6/16

Fourth - and to return to my epistle to you - WTF did they pick those songs? Okay, “Rockin’ in the Free World” they “thought” - well, you understand their idiocy. “Like a Hurricane” - a stretch, but okay. 7/16

“Cowgirl in the Sand,” however, I always thought was a sensitive and sensuous - I get those terms (or was that “sensual”?) confused. Can you not give them a “pass” for stupidity? Wait - they are costing a lot of lives. 8/16