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Earth Asked Me to Give Her a Break
she said
"your greed shrouds me in
black pain
blind hate
a veil of midnight
your love shines in
but in your fear
you push it far away
as dim stars
vaguely hinting
of day's truth
my blood runs brown
with industry's constant
piss of poison
my wounded skin
festers with smog
and rots away
from your armpit paranoia
my children
your brothers and sisters
chained to a wheel of suffering
look!
an arab child shot
dead, on the hard ground
blood pools under his head
and flows through the dust
free as a river
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