rich men/threading needle eyes
rent dreams of heaven/to the poor
served with a side of by n by/the meek will inherit
dust
& pay a healthyly inheritance tax/ captialism
eats its young/mucho money for weapons/minds
lie fallow/sow want/reap need/
no house/
no food/
no coat/& baby its cold out here
no boot straps to pull up/no boots
/no doctors
/no place to grow/
dreams die/starved
& baby its cold/in a
deficit soul/too poor
to live/but who can afford to die/they took
the land/& those seeds wont reproduce/they took
what was underneath the land/minerals aint got rights/water
aint free/they took
the air over the land/then they
sent my job to indonesia/cant
afford pride/will work for food/will
work/no detroit/good for ford/good for the usa/thats what they used to say/
factories closed/dont need your service/industry moved overseas/
dont lie or sit here/gated communties
/locked churches/
closed schools/
hospitals/soup kitchens/
welfare rolls/closed/bankrupt/closed/
forclosed/fraudulent/money
may be an illusion/but
the need is real/hunger kills
more people than bullets/desperation
loads guns/cant afford to care/ got to survive/buys dog food/
no medicine/lives in a box by the police station/
cant afford justice/could survive but
cant pay for care/distracted by survial/too tired to
resist/no gas money/ no
car/no suit for the interview/no extra/
never enough/need/want/want & need/death
is an exit
/too poor to die/will
work for dignity/no jobs/jobs left/rich got richer
/poor got poorer/too poor to die/we drank the tears/thirsty/
thirsty & hungry/sell em back their own water/hungry
/its hell here/will work/the bank took the house/
furlough days/ furloughs from pay/
rent too damn high/ lay ya ass down and die/ too poor
sell a kidney/a lung/rent your womb/
put tomorrow on lay away
/charge a life/
will work/told us their was milk & honey/will work for either one/
will follow wolves/
will be sheep/
will sin/
to eat/ to pay the mortgage/will work
will kill other sheep/hungry/
the night has farther to fall before day breaks.
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Table of Contents
The Dime
War
Earth
Race
Money*
Polytricks
Men
Women
Children
Elders
Art
to be continued
