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Economist on the TV station

Doesn't talk about the role of inflation

Just compares us to the world stage

To other lives below the poverty wage

This is not "just a poem"

These are not just "lyrics"

This is reality

Not the kind they show on your TV

This is not a "poem"

These are not "lyrics"

This is reality

Not the shit they sell to you and me

Two thousand people in Sierra Leone

Drowned in a storm that came and flooded their homes

The US doesn't care about Freetown

News ain't reporting it because they're brown

This is not "just a poem"

These are not just "lyrics"

This is reality

Not the kind they show on your TV

This is not a "poem"

These are not "lyrics"

This ain't a song about some pretty flowers

A metaphor for human vaginas

Every day another child is born

Just to fill another uniform

Broken home in the ghetto, what's next?

Prison industrial complex!

This is not "just a poem"

These are not just "lyrics"

This is a message to the legislators

The autocratic fake-media makers

This is not "just a poem"

These are not just "lyrics"

This is reality

Not the facade they built with wealth and greed

Cars for the people who were founded by Nazis

Re-enact the past by gassing monkeys

They say it's for testing their diesel emissions

Failing to see the irony in their actions

Famous people are committing crimes

Getting their publicists to drop the dime

What's up today on the news station?

Autoerotic asphyxiation!