The day will come not long off
when all the world will refuse to try
and mortal men, poor and old, despairing of the times
will gasp one last at their circumstance
and lay down in their graves to die
robbed of futures they never knew,
or good times only tasted
the ignorant youth will revolt against truth
at the lives their government wasted
a ramshackle train of lost generations
will alternate, wave and spit on the flag
while homeless vets wake up on streets
and degenerates force children into drag.
houses will sit empty, for the speculators
who like hordes of rats eat the substance
of mice and of men, and they, calling it patriotism
will demand socialism for the rich
and capitalism for the robbed, again and again.
The chutzpah of it all.
America, the conquered: the ruins of dead mens dreams.
The day will come not long off
when all the world will refuse to try
and mortal men, poor and old, despairing of the times
will gasp one last at their circumstance
and lay down in their graves to die
robbed of futures they never knew,
or good times only tasted
the ignorant youth will revolt against truth
at the lives their government wasted
a ramshackle train of lost generations
will alternate, wave and spit on the flag
while homeless vets wake up on streets
and degenerates force children into drag.
houses will sit empty, for the speculators
who like hordes of rats eat the substance
of mice and of men, and they, calling it patriotism
will demand socialism for the rich
and capitalism for the robbed, again and again.
The chutzpah of it all.
America, the conquered: the ruins of dead mens dreams.
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