I’m glad you came in
\nPlease, sit on the table
\nLet me check your vitals
\nYou look strong and able<\/p>\n
But our tests say
\nThings are amiss
\nLet me put up you x-ray
\nHey, look at this<\/p>\n
There’s an abnormal
\nCurve in your spine
\nLooks like you spent
\nA long time in binds<\/p>\n
And right over here
\nThere’s fluid in your chest
\nCausing your heart
\nSo much stress<\/p>\n
And these scars
\nThat crisscross your back
\nLike you were the victim
\nOf animal attacks<\/p>\n
And what of these impressions
\nAround your neck
\nThey look like rope burns
\nAnd, what the heck?<\/p>\n
You see these separations
\nAlong your spine
\nLooks like you were hanged
\nBy your neck many times<\/p>\n
Then your torso and legs
\nAre covered in burns
\nAnd scars show infections
\nFrom untreated germs<\/p>\n
Your missing fingers
\nAnd genitals is queer
\nWere they cut off as mementos
\nTaken as souvenirs?<\/p>\n
And you have a predisposition
\nTo hypertension
\nStemming from surviving
\nHorrible conditions<\/p>\n
Tests show months
\nChained in ships dehydrated
\nYour body retained salt
\nThat’s how you made it<\/p>\n
Those who couldn’t do the same
\nPerished at sea
\nThis is why your descendants
\nAre weak for heart disease<\/p>\n
And I detect evidence
\nOf things you don’t say
\nStretch marks but you’re childless
\nWere your babies stolen away?<\/p>\n
Muscles show fatigue
\nFrom overwork day after day
\nBut you’re malnourished
\nThe obvious results of bad pay<\/p>\n
My god! It defies logic
\nThat you’re still alive
\nWhat’s been your drive?
\nHow have you survived?<\/p>\n
But what’s more puzzling
\nThan your will to live and fight
\nIs what caused such suffering
\nWhat type of parasite<\/p>\n
What kind of leech
\nHas such a pathological need
\nTo degrade and destroy its host
\nIn order to feed<\/p>\n
So we ran tests
\nFor the source of your affliction
\nAnd found capitalism and racism
\nMade you their victim<\/p>\n
Both were born and grew
\nFrom leeching dark blood
\nSpreading their poisonous influence
\nCorrupting all that’s good<\/p>\n
But from our studies
\nWe have the solution
\nHow to destroy this parasite
\nBring its reign to a conclusion<\/p>\n
So we recommend as treatment
\nThe surgery you need
\nIs world socialist revolution
\nWith Afrikan workers in the lead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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