No Home to Breathe In

Burn them all:
The black, the white
The left, the right

Yes, burn them all!
They're bad for our country:
The immigrants, the government
They're bad for us, trust me.

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Blink once, blink twice
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It's the oil, right?
The oil is good.
We do it for Jesus!
(But we've just bombed his old neighborhood.)

Burn them all!
Spread more words of hate!
No time for rebellion
Since you start work at 8.

And it keeps burning:
The women, the men
(At last equal under the smoke,
The Beckys and Bens)

I'm pro-life,
(But no, not his.)
Let's protect our people
But kill everyone else; it's just how it is.

Burn the countries
That have the oil
Justify our means
Blood makes their soil.

Burn it all:
Except—one thing to say as the flames lick the steeple,
Stop caring about oil
Start caring about people.

Posted in response to the challenge Iran.

Zehwah Sheikh

TX

14 years old

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