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“Death is a sure thing but life is just as certain. Problem is you can’t know in advance.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Toni Morrison, February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019
Fuck your “thoughts and prayers!”
“I... can’t... breathe!”
Between mass shootings
Not 24 hours after twenty souls were
Dearly departed
By another white domestic terrorist
In El Paso, Texas
Nine more suffer the end
To their existence
In Dayton, Ohio
America: you have a white supremacy problem!
And it has a commander-in-chief!
From Becky’s calling cops on families grilling
To the prequel killings at a Gilroy, California garlic festival,
From Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Renesha McBride, Trayvon Martin
You slaughtered the Native American
Forced them on reservations
After forced marches and
Syphilis-blanketed “trails of tears”
Then after denying education and opportunity
To the people that got you through your first winter...
You decry them as worthless alcoholics!
You drug the African piled high
Like stacked sardines
In boats christened with the name
“The good ship Jesus”
Stole their religion, culture, language, wealth
Separating families like goods on shelves
(Replayed in modern-day kiddie concentration camps)
Brutalized them for bails of cotton that made you sultans and kings
Had Benjamin Bannicker design your capital
His cousins build your White House
Banned their descendants from reading, writing; arithmetic
At threats of castrations, cross burnings and noose...
And have the GALL to call their children’s children “thugs,” worthless: lazy!
Block their votes
With gerrymandering
And conspiracy theories of voter fraud
And deny them rightful reparations
For your crimes against humanity
And treasure you stole.
The toll is being paid in blood
By “chickens coming home to roost.”
After Sandy Hook, once we let them get away with “thoughts and prayers” for twenty babies and six adults, it was a wrap!
The GOP is bull crap,
They have always shown us what they are: soulless shills for big money donors thrills and corporate lobbyists
Bringing bags of money to the US capital, ALA Spiro Agnew for their political prostitution campaigns.
They refrain from real governance
That doesn’t line their own pockets,
Living in gated cul de sacs
In “master-planned communities”
Where their families and friends
Have never seen a lack
They have no sense of decency, community, common good or honor:
The NRA via Russian oligarchs, the KKK: it doesn’t matter!
As long as they can get the 2nd Amendment types to scream about “jackbooted thugs” after every tragedy, they’re fine.
They’re a dysfunctional personality cult masquerading as a political party that doesn’t give two shits about America or its own constituency.
They just don’t.
And we
Will naval gaze
And wax philosophical
As politicians and pundits
Skillfully don’t get to the root
Of the problem,
Faking
Just as they drive up Nielsen ratings
I implore any scintilla
Of decency left (if it EVER existed) in
Orange Satan:
The BIGGEST shit hole nation...
Is YOURS!
