An Ode to Gil Scott-Heron
October 19, 2016The REVOLUTION will be televisedSponsors include: Walmart, Chevy, Apple, McDonald’s, and Exxon/Mobil…Watched online, 1,000,000 and countingBorn a blank slate, one day I’m bribed to love Thanksgiving and ChristmasInside I’m an alien, outside, controlled chaosThe Revolt carried onMain-Stream-Media made it look thinAnd thin it remainedWelcome to a revolution caught in a death SpiralAll my true heroes died while the next generation slept in bellies and ball-sacksWaking up programmed, everyone analyzedAll us are numbers safely filed away under: Unimportant SheepleMeanwhile, I woke as an extremist after discovering my history was sanitized, and for a great many reasons the BEAST threw me off his backGrab a coffee, go to war, have a baby and give it a birth-dentityBlame your misery on the flutter of a Butterfly-God’s wingsFit in by finding comfort in filler words, “like”Become a victim of the revolutionBecause it will be televised, commercialized, compartmentalized and soon enough you’ll be programmed just like the ones you loath mostThe moment of my birth, invisible chains of control called S.S. numbers fastened me to a mountain of debt that embed various fishhooks of servitude and addictionMeanwhile, a Shadow’s white gloved hand prunes plants grown from the seeds of historyDo you ever stop to notice their painful tugging and cutting?
Published on October 30, 2017 20:22
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