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The Project

A Poem

By Atomic HistorianPublished 9 months ago Updated 9 months ago 1 min read
The Project
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It’s an effervescent antidepressant

When you can’t pay your rent

Money whores stripping us of everything

As we cling to our last life line to reality

The fallacy of their phallic immorality

Killing humanity for a bag

Dragging us to destruction

Because they don’t know how to function

A civilization on the brink of extinction

While everyone is free thinking

They caught us blinking

Now our blood tingles down our spine

If they could

They’d take our water for wine

A people ruled by religion with no humanity

A Lutherian hell

The name of their beliefs forgotten

Rotted in the desert of despair

An engine of sorrow

Redlining like there’s no tomorrow

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Atomic Historian

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  • Grz Colm9 months ago

    Indeed Atomic! 😔

  • Mother Combs9 months ago

    💐

  • I hear ya, I feel ya, I wish it wasn't so. But people be people, just like you & me. We all gots our blindnesses & finds ussins all in need o' grace. (Just wish we didn't make others suffer so for our sins.)

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