Like our business is murder and business is booming
Like bombs dropped on children
Like drone shadows looming
Like lies from the puppet on pulpits of policy
Like teachers telling students that we live in a damn democracy
Like the trail of tears disappears from a History textbook
Like we forget about all of our fears with this season’s new best look
Like Mrs. King sued the government for the murder of her husband
Like they settled with the family for one hundred dollars, hoping that it would hush them
LIke every twenty-eight hours a black man is shot down by police
Like corporations are more people than people and have more rights to free speech
Like you can’t trust the cops or the courts for justice
Like rape victims are scorned, informed they’re not to be trusted
Like internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War Two
Like Guantanamo Bay, which by the way is still in use
Like the terms Alien and Sedition aren’t just Social Studies facts
Like it’s held many different names, always the same, what is the Patriot Act?
Like the sizes of the countries on the map on the wall
Like little kid’s report on the greatest country of them all
