Kiss the Ring
Now speaking at all is always out of turn but I'm taking my turn Soap box sorta shaky In this bloodthirsty Christian dictatorship my words won't save anyone's bodies Too many hooligans - are any blue Hallucination holograms Facts their secret fear I remember remembering isn't allowed Brackish skies spill poison rain Don't let any get in your mouth or do and see what mutation you get Write your obituary again before bed Is safety where I'm chasing shadows I don't know if they're still lockstep with flesh or if touch can still defeat despair Fingers flexing hands seeking blind Buried a few of us refuse to eulogize Fascism is not holy After fascism maybe nothing is Tell the truth and the president adds you to the enemies list Prop up the state propaganda or you don't get your putrid portion of beaks and hooves at all We're just his forever bobbleheads National Guardsmen bobble the heads of corpses for them Stymied resistance all fired up to fizzle Every day of the week doomsday The villain must approve the poems This day is night every day is night You can't see any doctor or specialist of any kind Billionaires get even more jets You don't get lifesaving meds Eat the boots you've been warned to pull yourself up by the straps of Also eat the straps Eat your spirit before it starves This verse I scream without authorization: "I'm still a faggoty cocksucker and some trace of me still clings to something adjacent to life!" All the poor who think they'll blend in by going Republican cover their stick figure children's ears and usher them into mandated hetero homes where they'll obey every word of the latest version of the head of state's Bible translation War on thought war on compassion Drones of distraction Police presence continuous ICE cold and grabbing hold Dragging someone's daddy away to where The trusty Hitler playbook is what the Constitution was always truly meant to be Scholars and historians and teachers finally stopped reading it wrong The two other branches of co-equal government co-equally kiss the ring