The blood of my people is running
Down the slope of this up hill struggle
Culture's Vultures pick at the mangled masses
Massacred
Disem-bowel-ed Movement
Fecese formed
Falling far from freedom
Caged by our own hands
Raised in Protest so long
Our fingertips have lost all blood flow
Blood's Rerouted to the trunks of these trees
Rooted on the idea that we'll see change
Blowing in long winded political speeches
Politics are just camouflaged penises
Phallus' ready to fuck us when our eyes close
Exposed to lies so often
We have no palette for truth
Salute the commander and chief
Bystander to grief
Starts and unjust war then sends relief
His political platform is a diving board and soon we’ll all be drowning
Fighting the current events from tents along this corporate shore
Mercury is burned with coal; toxicity we endure
Instead of fighting the flu you can fight the vaccine; the FDA labels mercury as a preservative
Fish are poisonous, Environmental toxins
Mercury; PCBs, lead, cadmium, Dioxin
E.P.A refuses to pull tuna from shelves
Permanently damaging brains of infants and children
We are the future; brain damaged degenerate cigarette smoking cell-phone toting amnesiacs
Forget the war on terror
We are under attack
Fuck Darwin
How is forgetting our potential evolution?
People are selling themselves short everyday;
Legal prostitution
The retribution for being gay
Proposed ban on Marriage;
To amend the constitution
The clock strikes midnight
Your carriage of change is squashed back into a pumpkin
In our haste we neglect to taste our freedom
It tastes bitter like dark chocolate
The sheer thought of freedom stimulates the cannaboid receptors in our brains
Yet we refrain
Living a life that we cut and pasted from an episode of Seinfeld
We dwell in this prison of cubicles and 9-5s and prime time T.V.
We buy candy bars and fancy car and support monopolies
We are a feminine culture surrounded by Phallic towers
These modern erections were flattering at first
We soon realized they were sc-raping the sky and our values
Secretly we cheered when two of them fell limp
Not because innocent people were killed; there is no greater crime than taking human life
There they lay broken and placid
Viagra couldn’t fix this!
As patriarchal society gets E.D.
Balance will be restored
No longer will our voice be ignored
Let us restructure ourselves until we are formless
Better yet form a circle
A drum
Drums are really bridges; so let us bridge the gap between poetry and rap
White and black
Fiction fact
He and she
We must be
One & the same
Though various attributes have been ascribed different names;
Statues of deities lining the mantles of our heart’s fireplaces
We turn on the T.V. so we can embrace the slaughter first hand;
We hug our Televisions
Between our fingers runs black sand;
Hills of the Dakotas taken away to pan for gold
On E-bay sacred dance and chants and rituals are sold
If I could be
So bold
To try
To put into words all the cries of eyeless tears
Parched throats swallowing fear
Goats milk
A mother's touch
As soft as silk
Hands pray
Pray to feed their stomachs
Can't stomach this poverty
Didn't ask to be born
Pledged disallegiance
Sworn that we're torn over every issue
Duality you see is like a kleenex tissue
You can blow your nose or wipe your eyes
In desperation wipe Your ass
Not that being crass is the answer
We have amassed a tumor; cancer
It’s rumored long ago Doctors had no need for stethoscopes;
Listening to every heart instead of just it’s beat
Allopathy is a disease as is any Philosophy of separation
You can hear it in most churches sitting in the congregation
All fagots burn in hell
Those who dwell on earthly things
We are all sinners tattooed with tongue rings
Where is our messiah?
What form will he or she take?
How do we bring about change without destruction in it’s wake?
Despite what you may think
A VW bus; mattress in the back and 8track rocking out the speakers, is not the only vehicle for change
An acid trip back to the pixie dusted 1960’s won’t really make you fly
In Fact
It’ll make you cry
Sticking in your eyes; half cracked windows to the world
Dread locks will do exactly that
Lock you into the dreaded stereotype of being a worthless pot smoking hippie
Preferring finger painting and playing Frisbee in the park to this 9-5 world
Boys and girls twirl & dance
Emancipated from fear and doubt; that is to be taught later, along with gender roles
Before they learn how to style their hair and what to wear for clothes
Before they learn that people are to be seen as black and white
Before their informed of structure; their bodies, how to fight
Someday they’ll be handed M-16s and hand grenades and told to march into battle
They are like cattle
Strewn across and open field
Lives our on the line to increase the corporate yield
Maybe that’s true terrorism; one hand turned against another
Lying in the trenches while they shoot sisters and brothers
As human life is laid to waste on foreign streets
Candles lit vigils in pupils; prayers round the world for peace
Prayers for the cessation of this war for oil
We’re battling inflation, poverty, economic toil
We didn’t need another war; to dispose of human life
Doctor’s can’t afford to practice;
The repression of the rife
Welfare isn’t and food stamps don’t buy diapers
Dreams are assassinated quickly
A nation of snipers
Windshield wipers
Dissolve in acid rain
Politicians never listen
Their interest, always feigned
O.N.D.C.P
Partnership for a drug free
America
Designed to fight
Hard
Drugs
Heroine, amphetamines, ecstasy, cocaine
Pot seems to be the hot topic of discussion
Made a felony with legal repercussions
Absence of rehabilitation
Bars
Slam
Sentences
Incarceration
A drug by definition
Any substance that changes the way we
Think
Or feel
Why not ban fluorescent lighting
Television
Exercise
Procreation
Bulldoze supermarkets
Make it illegal to inhale deeply
Too much oxygen gets you high
I mean there are pharmaceuticals
At the cuticles of every teen
Antidepressants
Antibiotics
Antipsychotics
Lithium, Paxil, Prozac,
Remron, Zoloft, Neurotin,
Vicodine, Morphine, Oxycontin
Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Midol ,
Ritalin, Ephedrine, Nicotine
Alcohol, Birth control, Adderol, Caffeine
Surgeon general’s warning
Cigarette smoking and excess consumption of alcohol may be harmful
McDonalds will kill you
One dollar menu item at a time
And You can have it your way
You can eat French fries and onion rings
Cooked in transfats
You can Drive-thru while wearing a paper hat
You can
Drink a glass of tap water if that’s what floats you
144 contaminants later
A Diet Coke might have been safer
Mineral depleting phosphoric acid
Poisonous Bromide
Laboratory created
Super saturated
High fructose corn syrup
And Aspartame
One name for this known carcinogen and neuron toxin
The FDA
Keeping American Consumers Safe
Safe from the truth
There are over 2000 artificial chemicals commonly used in processed foods
A N D
They are all harmful
Hindis wear bindis hoping to restore their vision
Seeing beyond this society;
Cultural prison
The caste system is still in place
You can see it in each impoverished face
And bridge-cards fill school yards with malnourished children
Malnourished because
No matter how hard they suck on Uncle Sam’s nipple;
No Milk will flow
Most babies aren’t breast fed
Children are being fathered by the television
We are the children who’s fundamental rights have been put on the back burner
For convenience sake
The Ozone is being depleted
For convenience sake
The air we breathe
Polluted
For convenience sake
200 hundred year old trees are cut down
Replaced with saplings
For convenience sake
God forbid we have to dry our hands or wipe our ass’ with recycled paper
Forbidden Gods;
The golden calf belonged to a yogi;
Sitting in Lotus smiling
Buddha was a stick figure
But China celebrates an obese saint;
If Buddha was obese than he was well taken care of
Did Jesus dare love;
A single woman?
Marry Mary
If so maybe miracles were merely moments spent
Lost in each other’s gaze
When we finally taste the fruit
We’ll find that we contain the tree
All our actions
Divisible fractions of eternity
When the Dow Jones leaves you feeling cross
Eye the Tao Te Jing
It will bring understanding;
Clarity, a sense of peace
Realize that 70% our bodies are comprised of water
70% of the earth is comprised of water
We are microcosms of the universe
The universe being verse united
And we are beings united in verse
Speaking the word of the day
Each day holds sway
And once recited
It will never be again
It’s imperative you listen to the narrative of the stars
If only to realize our story is the same
Like the nebulas we too are spinning
We are constellations
A series of stars; some shine brighter, but are all connected
Reflected in our pupils;
Portrayals of the divine
And we are fine with love
Just not love expression
Viewed as another word to imply ownership;
Possession
God is the expression of love
For fear of being viewed as objects
We object to God
In doing so we object to ourselves
The kingdom is within us
If we deny it
Deny ourselves
Let us clear the dust and cobwebs off our heart’s shelves
Maybe than compassion wouldn’t have to be
Rationed so carefully
Finally opening our eyes
Lifting this veil of reality
The Sun will rise
From it’s tomb
We shall be free
We shall be reborn in the absence of a womb
Christed in our consciousness
We each carry three cross’
Every soul is blessed
This pain
Pleasure
Earthly endeavor
All are finite things
Forced along the path of time
As the pendulum swings
Energy can never die
It merely transforms
We will someday realize we are the eye of this storm
God’s peace
A piece of God
God needs us to be whole
We don’t really have a choice or voice
We are one soul
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Submission Name: Disem-Bowel-ed Movement
