may be inspired by the lines allen ginsberg (see and shocks of hospitals and jails and wars - whole... and moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! - molo...) speaks in the song ghetto defendent on the 1982 album combat rock by english punk band the clash. see for a biography of the clash rudi can't fail.in this song, ginsberg says 'methadone kitty', which could have been the inspiration behind methadone pretty. also ginsberg's lines 'SITTING PRETTY / GRAPHED IN A JIFFY / NO PITY, PRETTY' may be the inspiration behind msp's lines 'You're methadone pretty, surrender in pity'. [many THANKS TO Saulisagenius FOR PROVIDING THIS INFORMATION.]Methadone is a narcotic pain reliever, similar to morphine. it was Developed in the 1940s by the Nazis as a synthetic pain-killer (the drug's earlier name was 'adolphin' - after adolf hitler). Methadone also reduces withdrawal symptoms in people addicted to heroin or other narcotic drugs without causing the "high" associated with the drug addiction. its use is controversial: Supporters point out that methadone maintenance, being oral, breaks the dangerous ritual of intravenous injection, that it is legal and eliminates the addict's need to engage in crime to pay for drugs, and that it gives addicts a chance to reevaluate their lives. Critics counter that methadone patients are still addicts and that methadone therapy does not help addicts with their personality problems.the complete poem ginsberg reads in this song, is the following (not all lines are very clear):

starved in metropolis
hooked on acropolis [/necropolis]
addict of metropolis
do the worm on acropolis [/necropolis]
slamdance cosmopolis
enlighten the populace hooked in metropolis
addicts of metropolis girlfriendsshot into eternity methadone kitty
iron serenity
strung out committee
the guards are itchy broken bottles grafted in a jiffy strung out committee
not sitting pritty
graphed in a jiffy
no pitty, pretty jean arthur rimbaud
1873
paris commune
died in marseille
buried in charleville shut up anchor dragdreamsguatemala - hondouras - poland - 100 years war
tv re-run invasion - death squad - salvador
afghanistan meditation - old chinese flu
kick junk - what else can a poor worker do?

the song methadone pretty is a song inspired by thinkers like jean baudrillard, and is about the way people become empty-headed consumers in our western culture. just as the drug Methadone is synthetically manufactured and used as a substitute for the treatment of people dependent on heroin and other opioids, consumers live on a manufactured drug in the empty surface capitalism creates for us.