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[stick_and_drum]

Here's to the political psycho
who was once too afraid to open his mouth.

Here's to that greedy bastard
and the lies he would tell down south.

He would stir up the crowd with talks of controversy
and we would stir it back down with whips and chains,
He would talk real loud-these words of blasphemy,
and we would shut him up with guns and-

and, stains.
Dammit, he left stains
of blood.

And so we thought:
What was there ever to gain?
Could we have forever hidden others' pain?

All this time, we were the ones to blame:
yes, we were insane.

There's a face to that damn politician,
a face I now recognize very well

because his platform
was a new form,
of democracy: equality.

You changed life Mr. Politik,
and I am sorry your passion has bid you farewell,

I need you now and again, Mr. Politik,
because our logic has created hell.
                                                       -ck



(painting by aaron douglas)