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PUT A FINGER DOWN- The Day After the Revolution:Everything is Normal Edition

Put your finger down If you believed That Maandamano (Protests) would change the country Put your finger down If you were caught in the feeling That the revolution has been televised Put your finger down If you believed His excellency was shaken to humanity Put your finger down If you believed that the death of the bill Was the death of the business of deals Put your finger down If you thought the heroes Shot in the demonstration Would be matyrs of a new nation Put your finger down If you thought the spectacle of the king To the anger of the peasants Was a victory to the masses Put a finger down If you don't know where to fight anymore Because you were given the carrot in words And a stick in action Watching the same bourgeois class Conversant in the language of the system Back to steer ing the system to their pockets Put your finger down If you think parliament should be dissolved the president should step down Put your finger down If you think we need better leaders, And with the remaining finger If you are pointing at a better leader, You don't get it It is the system that rewards Those who understand How your country works Those fluent in the language of success Fluent in bull***ing the masses And leaves on the way side the rest of us The masses lying in the blood of country men Who died for a week of hope and excitement? Maybe we should have put our feet down And demanded different incentives for leadership Less salaries More service Less power More community Less brains More heart Less legacy More change Less economy More society as we are The country is a hydra The same head always grows back The day after the revolution Everything is normal

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Date: 8/6/2024 9:31:00 AM
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Moses Sichach
Date: 8/6/2024 10:09:00 AM
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