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Jay-Z
In order to find our reality,
We must give in to at least some myth.
New York asks Los Angeles were Manhattan is,
And Los Angeles replies
“It is Orange County.”
And regardless of the might of palace
We never needed thrones to rule,
I am speaking of the royal we,
I am much too solitary for anything else.
But do not consider me lonely,
I said we.
And ladies and gentlemen,
This poetry is Jay-Z.
Liberals are willing to sacrifice their ideals
If it means triumphing over those
Who threaten their ideals.
Little kids are willing to run to their abusers
If the arms of the abusers
Promise some hope,
At least for now.
Minority men with blue eyes,
Are willing to fight off the oppression,
Even if it means not bothering with consent.
And the weakness is only in
What they had to begin with.
Democracy just means
That those who are raped
Are raped by the will of the people.
The will of the people just means
Ignorance will reign that much longer.
The intellectual representatives decry ignorance though,
Ignorantly they forget it is who we are.
We are just ignorance, forgetting itself.
Forgetting means there will be no guilt,
And there is no guilt in progress.
Until progress realizes it needs some memory
If the emblazoned genitals are to be recognized now.
And the suicide of ideals
Doesn’t mean the suicide of conceptions.
And the rebirth of conceptions
Doesn’t mean anything new was conceived,
It just means we are willing to shed some of what was conceived,
For the sake of going on,
Looking for the conception.
And the conception
Is the boy
Who was a man to you,
And the rape that it became.
