Upholding the Veneer of a Lesser Estate

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Cipher - Pop

Upholding the Veneer of a Lesser Estate

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Open your eyes, still heavy and inflamed by late night television and tears Tears you attribute to lack of sleep, while ignoring your soul sick weariness Stretch out your hands, still crippled and burnt from keyboards and cigarettes Cigarettes filled with tobacco, that out of mere historical curiosity, you wonder how would have burned, if harvested by slave How sweet cane, cut by a nubile wench, would have tasted How soft to the touch cotton, picked by a strong buck, would have felt How effective indigo dye of yesteryear, would be at disguising your inadequacies How fulfilling it would be to reclaim land still damp with the blood of first nations Imagine all this while we fuel wars with beautiful diamonds and kill infants with horrible ignorance A 500 year, harvest of catholic church green-housed, white-supremacist- manicured new growth patriarchs Rotten five century fruit betrays its genetically modified, socially engineered design Hurry, hurry, faster. We haven't much time. We're still vomiting salt so our bodies can come home We're still walking on water, aided by the buoyant remains of our brethren We appear like messiahs, but from below we stand hollow on the still rotting corpse of inherited shame. Come, woman Show no deference to vacant effigies Place this mirror-womb to the face of humanity and betray god-head proffered mythologies Come, man Burn your conscience Burn it slowly Betray us never again Hurry n*gger Hurry Time is running out Come, Child Kill if you half to We will burden you no more Come, child. Bring this world to its implosive end The time has come. This is the harbinger of a new age. We are the children of God's fire

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