Vocabulary

If you are
Too busy fighting the
War inside your head
To pay attention to
What’s going on around you
You will get trampled
Cause the rest of the ride
Ain’t free
And some of us are
Getting off
Free like speech
You see your first amendment right
Only applies if
A. you are by yourself or
B. no one is listening
But if you speak too much truth
People will flock to you like lambs
And I’ll be damned if
Lambs don’t turn into chops
Class open your textbooks to
Page 666
Dubya Dubya Dubya
If you don’t understand the connection
You need to do some research
Welcome to the World Wide Web
Oh what a tangled web we weave
I am sticky with anticipation
Cause those who think they’re fly
Will get eaten by the spider
Eight legged freaks
Come out a night
Read between the
White lines and see the
Man in the mirror
Unroll your dollar and you’ll see that
In God we trust
Washington owned slaves
And a black man designed
The chocolate city
But the original capital was
Philadelphia where a
Black man is now mayor may not
What is it with
White guys named George
Curious?
Ah! Mason there’s your free
Now take another look at your dollar
It’s in the eye of the beholder
New World Order
Wasn’t always called USA
Stole I mean bought New York
For some shiny beads
Sold your soul for a little bling bling
The streets are paved with gold
But if you’re poor you can’t come in
Democracy demon-crazy de-man-crazy
If it’s not capitalism
Why is the capital not a state
In the United STATES of America
Abbreviated by the three capital letters
USA where dollars are notes that are
Federally reserved
So in the non-state gold is on hold
To validate non-letters that equal wealth
If you have enough dead presidents
Police state of emergency
Welcome to hell
Where you are
Welcome to sell
As long as you
Stay in your cell
And make phone calls
On your cell
While your DNA is
Extracted from your cells
So they can clone you
When you die
Consume the isms
Be a customer
As you grow accustom
To the custom
Of consumerism
Cons U Me R isms
I can’t get an apartment
With my credit
But I can get a card
Verb transitive: to comb wool,
Flax, hemp, etc
Wooly haired sheep sheared
Before shipment
Stripped of linens
And tied with ropes
And now we get high to get by
Get dressed to impress
And add hair by the layer
Verbalize your transition
In other words
MOVE

by Empress Nzingha

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