Go away, go away !
They want us to go away. Dilapidated ghettos, rot and blight Gunshots ring out in the middle of the night Cop's bullet, but he says he didn't do it Though the blood is red and the body is dead, Go away, go away, To the morgue, go away (So we don't have to face ourselves anymore.) What more do you want? We owe you nothing Stop asking for handouts We owe you nothing We didn't bring you here Why the hell should we care? Go back to Africa! Go back to Africa! (So we don't have to face ourselves anymore.) They want us to go away So they riddle our babies' bodies with bullets and sit aside to watch them bleed build asthma factories that pump illness and death into the air our children breathe And when the little ones are hungry they eat McSorrow and artificially-flavored disease because the freshest thing in the goddamn supermarket is the bottles of Febreeze. They want us to go away so they smash us like mirrors they can't bear looking into lest the truth finds its way to the surface and eats them alive. So they shove and push and glare and stare and infantilize and discipline and punish and jail and abuse and judge and mock and kill and kill and kill. Go away, go away Haven't we given you enough? Why won't you people just go away? (We can't stand to look at ourselves anymore.)
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