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Gotta Give It To The Man
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American Bed Time Stories I have painted blood
on the hands of my enemy
Dipping brush in the sands that I have previously soaked
With the parts of what were once
children,
families
elders who knew the past
I'll rewrite it now
In the black ink
I pump from the ground
And etch a new 'truth' in stone
As I remove gems from the third world
Join me in blaming their barbaric ways as they go hungry
But Woe to those who challenge my authority
Democracy, afterall, is a smoke screen
Late stage authoritarianism, is all it is
If voting mattered, like that funny dead guy said,
I wouldn't let you do it
But, hey,
Giving you that feelings, so pleasant, of class participation
Means you'll ignore the relentlessness of all my atrocities
You've signed off on, to avoid feeling guilty -
Isn't that clever?
Oh, and that piece of paper
Full of promises
I can get around a silly,
Yellowed constitution
Merely by privatizing your freedoms
And, if all else fails,
Shouting out a timeless classic -
"War! It's Us versus Them!"
Who do you hate now? I bet you it's not me...
(Though perhaps it should be)
Gotta give it to The Man
And The Man, you see,
Runs every country
Across every sea
Don't misunderstand
Don't think I've said
There are any good guys,
In the end
"In The Macro"
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Not the man, the woman! Okay, enough anti sexist ranting - donnot want to be labelled the bad femme. On the whole, they come and they go, control shifts - peons and serfs travel not at those altitudes. Shell near Poland and snap open eyelashes over historically savvy viewpoints. Shut-outs, oh only since 1719 for some.
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Democracy is no smoke screen, let's be clear on this. He is a seven dollar hoe sellin ' ass to anyone who will go down for a dip! Freedom is a vamp with no morality, sellin' at inflationary prices, singing "Take me down, you gotta lovely face!"
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The Them are blame's target because the disorganized are innocent? Naw. I wear my guilt openly and proudly. I bought the hook the line and want a third sinker. We follow wallowingly willing. It is how civilization evolved and chinks, aka looppits, were exploited, fortified, and declared alright norm. Buy a Senate, a State House, sexy. Money is Emperor - ask any Oligarch with frozen or hunted assets. Change the laws (or enforce them) and behavior follows. True, with such gods on platinum thrones, few are granted audience.
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They said work hard, win - so why am I lower middle after all that sweat? We construct our coffins and walk around with a spade on our shoulder for chip-shoveling. Live behind high security against assassins and thieves and you tend to become a wee bit jumpy.
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Nice Poem.
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Lady A
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Thank you.
Oh, "The Man" is more and more becoming "The Woman", don't worry. We can look forward to an equal opportunity abuse in the future, at least equal opportunity among the men and women born in the right-sized mansions.
Outside of children, I nod to you that there are no innocent parties to the world's woes. But the burden of responsibility for our err's is not nearly so fairly distributed, of course. Intentionally built faulty airplanes that kill hundreds of people, draw a fine, maybe have one scapegoat in the company charged. But go and be the guy or gal who makes faulty repairs on a rich man's car and see if you even make it past the "getting taken out behind the shed" phase to a trial date.
Or lie about alternate treatments to a disease and be a billionaire or a corporate news station, no problem. No need to apologize when it turns out that the "horse paste" actually would have saved a million lives or more, as studies have now proven. But be a "regular person" with a small following online and 'spread misinformation' (which may turn out not to be misinformation, ie. that supposed "horse paste") and have your ability to communicate, as well as perhaps make a living, cut off.
Yes, there's no innocent, but we do have a huge problem with distribution of responsiblity, and weird enough, it seems to correlate very strongly with the huge problem we have with distribution of wealth. Weird, right? ; )
Selling out, indeed. Politician is a job description. Whores for the ruling class bidders. People often look down on sanitation workers, as if they are the garbage rather than the takers away of garbage. Maybe we ought to realize, all together, who the garbage is and ask our sanitation workers to take them away : )
Let's disproportionately return the garbage to the garbage creaters - those mansions have huge lawns that would make nice landfills.