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Both Hands On Your Head

from The Grift by Jesse Jett

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~ And when you dream,
you’re by yourself
Don’t know the streets
where you find yourself
Go back to sleep,
don’t mind yourself
Both hands on your head. ~


Money’s talking
While hunger prays

Buncha Nazi-loving child-fuckers run the state

911 is on some 1-800-CIA

Plastic pundits pump your trusts
and fund your shallow graves

It’s malice just for malice sakes

Congress houses wealthy corpses,
breathing hexes, arming forces,
spilling out a million greedy snakes
from all their orifices,
coursing down the Congress floor,
across the aisle,
out the door,
to curse a million more
before they’ve run their bloody courses

Clip your wings like Klippenstein
Then out and burn your sources

collapse, at times,
is hard to witness,
other times, it’s gorgeous

There’s something satisfying
in the act of watching something greedy
choke upon the very thing
on which it gorges

And there’s something humbling blooming
in the thought that, once the dust has settled, mine could be the hand that clears the moss, and lights the torches

Mine could be the voice
that wakes the very fucking orchids

Mine could be the words
that stir the armies in the orchards

The lowliest of roots, I’d be the one to call them forward

let the very earth be witness first
to see the fascists flail and flounder once they learn they’re truly cornered

Once they learn the class war has boiled down to looters versus hoarders

Let the earth absorb their meager worth once they’ve been quartered

Laugh, and say “I only followed orders”


Kind of like the guy who flew the drone
that leveled Doctors Without Borders

When Classic Clinton morals launched a couple wars and, off the books, a dozen more,
so Congress opened up the store
and moved a quarter-million mortars

And bombed allegiance out of those who wouldn’t kneel before us

And now the stage is set,
and we’re the starving chorus

who hunger not, for justice,
but the leaders that ignored us.

~ Go back to sleep,
Don’t mind yourself

Let what you’ve seen
rewind itself

And, when you dream,
you bind yourself

Both hands on your head ~

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from The Grift, released July 4, 2022

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