Brandy

Sometimes I wonder sometimes I wonder,
endangering my well-being in doing so.
Why we starve amid surplus
and kill killers
and hang leaders
Ignore the hungry, so inconvenient.
Fuck the poor
And shit on the righteous,
Self-righteous stump-speeches
And political polling
Television ratings
Tax cuts
Must change the producers
into consumers.
This is progress.
Fuck the consumers, we’re over-consuming.
Give birth
Consume to sustain
[develop]
'Need to sustain consumption rates,
Rates, rates, rates,
And this rape goes unpunished
while grams put fathers in jail
and we say justice has failed,
but they strive for jail;
'better than the neighborhood hustle.
[Have you seen Philly lately?]

We get hustled more every day
while snoring in our creaking beds, raining,
Dreaming dreams of sex and death, and exams unprepared for.
The Dream is a nightmare and I’m thrashing violent in my sheets
But I can’t wake up.

Somebody please
call Oprah
and ask her what to do.