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ankofa:
The Art of War is Jackson Pollock splattering with blood and guts.
Displaced facial features of Picasso are we numb enough?
MC Escher etch a sketches psyches for the runners-up.
A collage of negative space, aftermath is thunderstruck.
messengers are shot down with a venom packed drone.
A canvas washed clean with the medivacs hose.
The rich sell it all and the poor buy to witness firsthand.
Viscera won't even fertilize when all the Earth's sand.
All for naught knots in guts, widows and the fatherless.
And stomachs stay empty wracking souls stuck on vomiting.
Embalm them in a pithy speech belched upon the newsfeed
A trough of a thousand cuts from the same YouTubed bleed
And this how we die, sayonara sounding off
Blood on the scarecrow, Christo body bags, buy the farm, drown in loss
Accountants click the digits, either side is all the same
Money money money money money reigns
we must be the good guys, the other ones are bad
And the word they claim as gospel, it is nothing but a fad

JON?DOE:
Sad to say, all my dreams and hopes done passed away
Pass my days laying in a coffin while the pastors pray
Actually, I kinda been enjoying tracing back the maze
Wack malaise, when everything is dulled within a mask of grey
And that's the way... yesu Kristo dressed to play Mephisto
Chasing capital done placed us back in 86 bro
When crack and babies mixed so the blacks became the maybe if-nos
And corporations leaked the toxic waste to make your piss glow
Its flagrant with no consequences if the money comes
Now dummy Trump's the paragon compared upon- we've underpumped
And wonder why the life rafts taking water- maybe oughta
Take this sorta serious cuz clearly it's a thunder run
Robbers on the road
They out for precious cargo while we hobbled with the load, over cobbles that erode
Got us going down faster than toboggans in the cold
Corporatocracy done got the people slobbing on the chode

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from The Beat Shall Inherit the Verse, released August 25, 2022

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