America by Cornelius Bent

November 22, 2010

America
I love you

But Marijuana is unlawful
Because it is the gateway
From prescription dealers
While cigaretes kill over 443,000 of your people a year

That’s 36,916 of your people a month
That’s 1,213 of your people every single day

That’s genocide

Sanctioned by the state

Because there is profit to be made
On the addicted
And the ill

America
I love you

But your war veterans
Who fought
YOUR
wars
Are freezing in the streets
Begging for food
Still hiding from bombs
Still hearing the bullets
Still bleeding out

While your cooperate prisons

House
Feed
And
Warm
Their incarcerated profit margins

Funded by the dimes
From the pockets
Of the children
Of those veterans

America
I love you

But you’ve convinced your women
That feeding a child from the breast
Is like defecating in public
Because you have yet
To find a way
To calculate a titty tax

And mama shouldn’t be idle with baby anyway

She needs to be at work
To help build that thing
So someone else
Can have another damn thing

While baby forgets the color of mama’s eyes

America
I love you

But our children are being doped stupid
In your schools
Because they can’t sit still
To stare at blackboard indoctrination
Because they have imagination
And there is no market for that

So pharmaceutical gestapo
Launch public service announcements
Through satellite TV
Brain scrub

To Issue mass diagnoses
To implement long term business models
Because if you can get them hooked
at grade level

You got them for life

America
I love you

But You didn’t abolish slavery
It was only incorporated
Made all inclusive

A free market
Where one is free
To become
un-free

Infomercial masters
With interest rate shackles
20, 30, 40 percent
Paying for money that never existed
With money that never was

Spending the primes of our natural born lives

Punchin that clock
Gettin that overtime
To keep Mr. Fico proud

Finding retirement emancipation

Just in time
to die

America
I love you

But you’re trying to convince,
a 3,000 year old civilization
With humane drone attacks
And a danglin Saddam
That they should set their women free
Let them unveil
Because you know the right way

But you only stole this country
234 years ago
So what do you know?

Your women sustain unrelenting commercial attack

And they create anorexia
And tummy tucks
And distorted mirror execution
Falling into the hole
That is the billion dollar industry
Of self loathing

America
I love you
But you’re sick
And you’re spreading it.


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