Where are the modern day prophets
that so many of us need
to offer up blatant parables
about greed
and war
and about keeping the door opened
and inviting in the meth head
the crack addict
and the dope fiend
see, with a little love
they can be weened
with a little bread
they don’t have to wind up dead
or in jail
getting pennies fighting wildfires
making license plates
and fancy lingerie
why make them pay
for societies sins?
When you throw out the baby
with the bathwater,
no one wins
except the businessman who grins
as prison stocks rise
no, these people aren’t expendable
and every time one of them dies
god cries
and the oceans begin to overflow
so think about your white privilege
every time you look down at that line and blow
it’s not what you did
it’s who you know
it’s how much money your family has
and how guilty you look
and there you might be,
high as a kite
but you look like a good kid
so even if you try to fight the police
you’ll live to laugh about it
after your dad’s attorney breaks you free
And here’s another blatant parable
that we all need to know:
American’s can never be happy
as long as our dollar bills
magically turn into death machines
killing countless thousands of the unseen…
we will slowly try to medicate ourselves to death
one way or another…
I remember a blatant parable
that I ignored
back when I was an ignorant,
patriotic,
catholic teenager,
“Whatsoever you do to the least of my people
that you do unto me”
before I sold my soul for the catchy slogan
“Freedom Isn’t Free”
But now I’ve dropped out of college
at the finish
just before the degree
because I couldn’t live with myself
with that bloodied piece of paper
framed on the shelf
and this part isn’t really a parable…
when you pay the taxman
Uncle Sam uses that money
to kill a lot of innocent people
and lock them up in all sorts of cages
worse than, bad as they are,
the cages down in Texas
there are pages and pages about all this
dating back to Plymouth Rock
but in the government schools
Uncle Sam cuts our eyes out
though, if we look real hard
we can still find the truth
hidden right in front of us
and it’s not a contest,
the ICE cages are bad
but so are private prisons,
and so are mountains of innocent civilians
piling up around the world
if you cry for some
cry for all
otherwise, ask yourself
who are those tears of yours
really for?
soitgoes1984 