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Divided We Stand

divided we stand a crippled fruit salad claiming to be diverse, to be tolerant. posing as peace keepers, referees on the worlds soccer field. but each statement is another nail in a nations coffin beat, starve, sexually abuse into submission purify with gasoline shave the scalps beauty down. assimilation. failure. plucking the pathetic from desperation. friends helping friends? did america do any different? plunging entire races into nightmares, smeared with death and dynamite. tolerant? peace keepers? its difficult to be patriotic, after learning a country's history. staring at a linoleum floor, listening to a world unravel.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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