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You can buy a new image, deny your privilege, 

hide your family’s lineage, compiling interest

dream of revelations, realizations, new each generation 

swallow all sensations, wallow in frustration, bury your foundations 

But damn it man, don’t you fail to understand, there’s blood on all our pale hands

Is it common sense yet/ that this violence is senseless/ not past tense enough to ingest a new perspective/ silence dense as border fences/ who objects to who elects to inject more nonsense objectives/ for days we gaze unaffected, hooked up to look for what the inflections intended effect is/ is it still a bribe if the incentive is effective/ is it still alive if the cells divide so reckless/ is it still a lie if it tells itself/ the feckless sex with the power to overinvest in our own selfish wealth/ and it’s all still a pill we fill up with the most, here’s a toast to your downfall and your health, bro

like confident queries countered by a wary stare into unfair, contrary, correlary pairs

Each map packed with stacks of facts that counteract what actually happened

Unawares, our nascent reactions tracking back to ancient tribal pacts, while there

Bold, tackling old habits like tensions flaring, intention sharing is rarely ever this very varied

Tragic that we drink up magic thinking, don’t blink or you’ll miss this titanic sinking

Don’t start or we’ll part ways without you, the art’s to doubt who you are without proof

Too aloof to, like goof, see eye to eye, time flying by and what happens is, like atticus

We act as if these shoes don’t fit, so we borrow a pair and walk around in it 

It’s only fair that now we’re drowning in alliances, encountering contrivances 

Dipping into daliances and daily dying just to try and feel alive again