YOUR VACCINES WON'T SAVE YOU

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your vaccines won't save you

that big house you mortgaged 

pay your entire pay cheque to

the bank that allows you to live in it

the one that's fooled you into renting it until maybe 30 years from now

by when you will certainly be trapped six feet underground

How will you enjoy it?

or burned up and in a tacky dish on your nephew's mantle

it won't keep you safe and sound

your chosenness won't save you

that way you look at yourself in the mirror

that habit where you tilt your head for the photographer

you giggle and say just capture my good side

that won't do much of anything to save you either

your victimhood won't save you

the way everything is because of something that happened

to you when you were seven or when your grandmother was just a girl

or your great grandfather was orphaned

you rape, pillage and steal to make things right 

all that occurs is your heart darkens 

you are completely eclipsed from both the sun and the moon

your cities block the stars

your heart doesn't know truth but just how everything has never been fair to you

a state has no right to be anything

it is not a human

but like you it's dead just not buried yet

everything starts and ends

that is the story of every empire