There's Nothing Normal About This
poem/song about how fascist takeovers aren't normal
Life handed me a lipstick,
Then handed me a pig.
My mother gaslights me
Calling me a lazy bitch.
/
"If you just believed in God again,
He'd get you through this."
God slept through the Holocaust --
Don't fucking start with that shit.
/
There's nothing normal about the news
Ignoring atrocities beyond border lines.
There's nothing normal about the boots
Stomping through the streets and ruining lives...
There's nothing normal about the people
Disappearing in bright daylight.
There's nothing normal about this shit
None of this is fucking alright.
/
Don't you dare fucking start with me
About phones being the problem.
The problem's sitting on his orange ass...
Spouting bullshit in the Office.
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The last thing I'm gonna be is quiet...
When my rights are being removed...
Women didn't change the world
By letting men tell them what to do!
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There's nothing normal about sick children
Being deported without their parents.
There's nothing normal about a woman
Being detained for writing op-eds.
There's nothing normal about men
Being sent to prison camps for tattoos...
There's nothing normal about this shit
And that means it'll happen to you, too.
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