Red, White, and Orange

In one ear and out the other, or
That’s what the nation held its breath for

Turn on their own who turn on them, they want us to believe their victimhood
Discount what we see with our own eyes, and
What we hear with our own ears
Raise our fists and fight each other

Hand in hand with culture carnivores
Ready to see us ‘back’ to roots we didn’t come from
Back to war, continue the war, the war crimes are legal until it’s
Over

Vampires to progress
Hope and unity
Vampires to human blood, they’ll suck the life out of all of us until we
Cage them just to stop the madness and

They call our husks abusers

Narcissist party up against the windows and asking to come in and then
The illusion of our safety shatters when they do it anyway
They wear stars and stripes around their shoulders, but
That’s not the flag they plant

Fascist in the hot seat
Fascist on fire naming himself Martyr
Wrapped in bandages to hide his unmarred skin

Bloody face, only it’s
Blood from his hands, it’s
Our blood on his hands
Blood from the bodies he’s stacked to stand atop them

Throne made of their bones
Dictator come home to the wrong side of history
I know how we got here, and
I will never understand it

Less of ignorance and more from loathing, they
Press their boots into our faces
Ask us, Do you see now?
What you’ve made us do?

Sink their claws into the bodies of Palestine’s children,
The bodies of black children,
The bodies of school children

Screeching crisis actor as they climb over them to
Civil war with
Misinformation, with
Misinformed opinions they can’t be reasoned out of

Guns point before we make any move to take them
They know theatre like no grieving family ever has
Fascists asking why we hate them
Under the noose they’ll use to hang us