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Divisive Rhetoric

Michael Marchese

By Michael Brandon MarchesePublished 5 years ago 1 min read

United used to mean something man

Used to mean you could hate me

And still lend a hand

Or just dap it

Just knuckles

Or give that good “later”

But now I’ve moved on

And you think I’m a hater

For trippin’ on truth

In this counter-act culture

Then mastering peaces

Of liberal art sculpture

And finding my roots

In a planet earth nation

A biologistic

Creation equation

Empowering forms

Of expression reflective

With lessons I’ve learned

From this human collective

To recklessly check titan industry profits

Who pass their class judgments

On what’s in my pockets

When we make the products

So their wars are waged

And we foot the bills

That still keep us encaged

To the ideal enslavement

Too big to fail theft

In a toxic metropolice

State strain of meth

In the brains of the free market harpin’

On fear

In the news, in the useless

Fake shit that you choose

To buy into the system’s

Fourth Reich kinda ruse

An arms race into space

So they win and we lose

Their defense, our expense

Hired guns are hardwired

And trained like dog tags

To cut deals with “your fired”

A job on the line kind of guy I suppose

In a tax evade tower

When factories close

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