The American Greed

Coming to America for the American Dream

Coming and seeing

The American Greed

The green opportunity

The land of the fee

Where lives are not worth as much as

The value of being free

The value of publicity

The value of the screen

Where children’s bodies pay the price

And that is not enough

For the values to change

For the prices to drop

Where teens talking about a bullet

Or two or three

Sending shockwaves through their bodies

and communities

Is seen as controversial, scheming

Political, demeaning

But not a tragedy

The American Greed

Illegal rights, lives, and dreams

Legal guns and death machines

Pierce their lungs with your second amendment

Take away their rights to breath

Children laying on the cold cement

Their eyes no longer able to see

How their blood will buy them no justice

How the world will simply fortify their school cells

How they’d rather keep children locked up

Rather than locking up guns themselves

God bless America

and the American Greed

For life and liberty

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