drive out the old and the children take them, the orphaned, the young gouge out the lives of the righteous name them informants and spies drive out the mothers, the fathers take them, the hopeful, the loved tell them "shikata ga nai" cage innocents in barbed wire fucking fences
we wash these wounds with salt and lye tear down the shacks with runes write spells to redact what we've seen with our own eyes
shikata ga nai
carve out new meanings for justice citizens' process abridged remedy race fear with prisons dress up the reasons with lies carve out the lives of your people those you've been sworn to defend give them no answer that's valid
turn immigrants to stateless refugees
we hold these truths to be untrue just shred the evidence we do what we must do wash these wounds wear this scar go on, feign ignorance go on, rewrite the darkness go on, feign tolerance go on, we write the story why? never mind patriots never ask these questions go on, claim safety go on, inhuman beings go on, stain liberty