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Streets of War

Corruption

By Dean MartinPublished 7 years ago 1 min read
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Streets of war

You can

drive your

car down the

street, in

the slumbs

of the city

and see a

war is brewing.

you can see

the shattered

windows,

cracked streets,

people hustling

for that next

dollar, doing

what they can

only to get

fucked by

the man

that's only

one part of the plan...

a war is brewing.

You have

all the makings,

glammed in

gentrification,

sweeping weeping

issues under the

rug, keeping sleeping

people out of the hub,

shoving distracting

images in your mug,

while stealing your

money they programmed

us to love...a war is brewing.

A country

that's mad,

simple fixes

to make people

Glad but that

would be a wrap,

so we're put in

boxes...tucked

away emotions,

fixed with triggered

responses, reward

the sleep for

not seeing and

punish the

conscious, it's like

we have a voice

with unhealed

tonsils, muffled

by what we

see, troubled

because you

want to

fool people

instead of

letting them

be free, but

the more who

arise will be

troubled by the

wool, divergent

personalities respond

different if been

fooled, holding

our heads under

water telling

us it's an empty

pool a war

is brewing...

We are

not stupid,

we can see,

it's clear, we

might be scared...

have you seen

someone sleep

walk? There's

no control,

once you wake

them up there

confused, usually

scared but

once made

known of there

condition,

they're aware

and they will fight it...

a war is brewing.

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