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Wide Awake!

Violence

Parquet Courts Violence - Wide Awake!
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Violence is the fruit of
unreached understanding
that flower from the lips
of scoundrels
It is a forest so dense
and rooted in our past
It tempts us to become
lost in its darkness
And stinks like the piss test
you were forced to take
Just before you were told
that you didn’t meet
The standards of integrity
that this organization
strives to maintain

Why are there no folks songs
about ATM machines
That produce the likeness
of the blazer of the trail of tears
Issuing overdraft fees
from beyond the grave
Prison TV shows
in an endless que
Containing the robust
nourishment of a commissary
This is why we cannot afford
to close an open casket
You protect no one by obscuring
the mirror that reflect
our own problematic reality
Allow me to ponder
the role I play
In this pornographic
spectacle of black death
At once a solution and a problem

A cause, an effect,
a rejoice, a regret
Violence is daily life
A promise a pact that
the world never kept
Violence is daily life

Savage is my name
because Savage is how I feel
When the radio wakes me up
with the words
“suspected gunman”
My name is a warning for
the acts you are about to witness
Which contain images that
some viewers may
find disturbing
My name belongs to us all
So if they ask for yours
give them mine
My name is a threat

Riot is an unfinished grave
that was dug to deposit
undepleted anger
Like barrels of uranium
leaking into something sacred
It is a word to delegitimize
your unrest
And to make your resistance
into an overreaction

The pink tube of paint called flesh
Used in portraits of chairmen
of boards and
Men who clean up streets
named after those who fought
For erasing the lives they
now claim to protect
What is an up and
coming neighborhood and
where is it coming from?

A cause, an effect,
a rejoice, a regret
Violence is daily life
A promise a pact that
the world never kept
Violence is daily life