THE SLAVES' GOVERNMENT

"I am too high-born to be propertied,/ To be a secondary at control/ Or useful serving-man and instrument/ To any sovereign state throughout the world" *

We're told they know what is best for us/ From seats of power, how can they feel/ What it's like to be parent-powerless?/ Held in check. To neck, ignorance's heel

I won't lie; we are equal in blaming/ Doing the same thing as the same before/ Buying all the hype "hook, line and sinker"/ Thanks for thinking for us; we strain no more

Sex hype, thought-lite, like pop calories/ Lethargy making minds slow, fat and morbid/ Inside the child we can unbind the past/ Killing suicide-grey thoughts of the cortex/ Currents long aborted and contorted/ Downhill, a spring is a mighty river/ The strongest ogre-political greed/ Can be stopped by a sliver known as...

(WE!) The people of discontent/ (WE!) The youth American/ (WE!) Have been too patient/ (WE!) Must roar and represent

"I am too high-born to be propertied,/ To be a secondary at control/ Or useful serving-man and instrument/ To any sovereign state throughout the world" *

Drop out of college; start to think for yourself/ You will probably confuse your parents/ Spreak strongly and fight injustice for all/ You will likely piss off the government

A true patriot will ride in one day/ With truth and fire shooting from his tongue/ Comes as enemy of state; like your Christ paid/ Cower not when the fight for your soul comes

(WE!) Of middle-class comfort/ (WE!) Of media drug-slumber/ (WE!) Of 9-digit number/ (WE!) Of the silenced thunder/ (WE!) The people of discontent/ (WE!) The youth American/ (WE!) Have been too patient/ (WE!) Must cripple the government!

"We must affect our country as our parents/ And if at any time we alienate/ Our love or industry from doing it honor,/ We must respect efforts and teach the soul/ Matter of conscience and religion/ And not desire of rule or benefit." *

*Henry David Thoreau (Civil Disobedience)

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