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Acquiesce
Gabriel Duncan

got the IEDs
in this mind you see
it's the words I speak
down with presidency
ever since I was born
I knew I was different
never got along
was always resistant
breakin tools of the system
by gathering momentum
with like minded friends
looking for the end
of rights to defend
or people to fight
but our blight's progressed
to an unholy might
we'll have you waking up dead
and fearing every night
. . . that's right

an' in case you haven't heard
it's the homo freedom bandit
fuck around with my crew
see what your ass gets planted with
got the foot longs in pistol grips, metal whips
rather use the blow torch
than the intravenous drip
got more vocab
than your man mad-libs
multiplying mediocrity
mediating many morons
millions more megatons to go
the show:
is a written free-styled flow
watching how you go
stepping over verbs
multisyllabic words
til the rhyme's absurd, obscure, un heard
the word, the turn is learned
the word is:
the rich progress
in spite of the poor

hunger is progress
because less is more

hunger is progress
because less is more

hunger is progress
because less is more

times three
you'll never be free
unless you think critically
act up politically
kill the travesty
of our naked king
burning his people
with ig'nant warring
so next it comes in
to our mainstream art
sucks the schools dry
cauterizes the heart
of our future

by the government's abuse
while cops are beatin' and screamin'
'til we're black and blue
wonder why I'm dying for change
then you wonder whut it dew
like I just stepped in with somethin' new
roll up on crooked cops
and plug a nugget in their muzzle
'cause nuzzle buzzles like
a dead pig as an example
got ample hate for you
judged not, yet misconstrued
i'd do two lifetimes in hell
for just some time alone with you

convalesce and coalesce
transgress the dispossessed
never reach success
'til our suppressors acquiesce