old people in homes,
bedpans, needles in their arms,
memories erased!
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food stamps and meth labs,
all that's left, America!
bondage, slavery.
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my father, good man,
worked, became invisible,
i've followed his path!
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too many hungry
mouths, too little, spread too thin,
expendable ghosts.
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Jesus walked, water!
Buddha walked in the moment...
i just keep walking!
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patriotism,
cutting down trees, bloody saws,
children stacked, firewood!
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Endures
in the end...
it's not what you own,
it's what you give...
that endures!
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your lips tremble, lost
between speech and cold silence,
memory and taste.
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bombs falling, women
and children, fill up the ditch,
covered by hatred...
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Walking Instructions
i live by the law of the human heart,
and beg no pardon of written creeds!
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