Fringes taste of dystopia,
bows for a cloth dripping in blood;
waves flexing the gallows
deep in the rift of American dreams.
You, dead eyed and blue,
hitting and running—allies are roadkill.
Bloody pipelines on fire
DACA tuitions burn in the wind
where black faces fade under goose-stepped boots;
beautiful ebony shattered by concrete.
Snakes retracing steps flaming their path
over native-skinned rugs.
Knives made from the hammers:
whitish hot heat in a whirlwind of spit
skins splatter paint graves—pouring more value
into ignited cross.
Eyes watching each other, more care for lunch
than the grass that they burn.
They’ll cut out my tongue when I scream, “let us be.”
They’re saving their matches for kikes, cunts, and fags.
They’ll toss us dead half nigger/spics out to sea
because we do not matter under the stars of your flag.
Your red crowns
match your white sheets
and blue blood.
Congratulations making
everything
great again.
[Confederate wet dreams
incubus for our fears.
They’ll surely hang us since we don’t belong here.
They’ll will hang us since we don’t belong here.]
They’ll cut out my tongue when I scream “let us be.”
They’re saving their matches for kikes, cunts, and fags.
They’ll toss us dead half nigger/spics out to sea
because we do not matter under the stars of your flag.
credits
from You Are A Citizen,
released December 13, 2019
Lyrics by M. Clayton
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