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The Agon


The birds sing “Poo-Tee-Weet”

Are we ever truly free?

Why do you take a knee?

Every 9 months we breed a soldier to this Unholy War

Oh, the families that we tore

Victims of an immoral system you and I are

Where our children do not feed

A system of capital and greed

Where different minded humans are slaughtered and tortured like sheep

All in the name of good business

We leave behind ethics and humanity

Millions and millions left in agony

 But that’s not what we are led to believe

Since Society deceives

Leaving no room to preconceive

That humanity’s agon is corruption and greed.

 

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