- Half-Blood Prince
- (Father and Son in July, Part II)
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- Our home child
- where fat cat politicians
- and corporate greed octopuses
- share the bed, bought with the people’s blood
- is where
- Generation Next fights off
- the temple’s tentacles
- and wonders why it’s so hard to shut your eyes
- it’s so hard to shut your eyes
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- Our home, child
- where “protect and serve”
- is replaced with “it depends on whom you know”
- is where
- school kids run for cover
- between history books and bullets
- and wonder why it’s so hard to shut your eyes
- it’s so hard to shut your eyes
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- Our home, child
- where I pay my tax
- and all I get is anthrax
- is where
- Texan good ole’ Boys
- bubble in the thick, warm flow
- of Arabian black gold
- and wonder why it’s so hard to shut your eyes
- it’s so hard to shut your eyes
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- Our home, child
- where it doesn’t take a prophet
- to see the horror of tomorrow
- is where
- a young New Jersey poet
- shares the bounty of the prize
- and knows why it’s so hard to shut your eyes
- it’s so hard to shut your eyes
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- copyright 2001, Frank Messina
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