Wednesday, April 26, 2017

in sod we bust



straight out of cherokee county, a honky named joad
in a jalopy 64 running on drip gas down the 66
got my handbill got my nine got a wagon full of kin
i can see the promised land in tech9color
or grey black and white footage from the upper balcony
dense with promoter fog and reefer madness
the ax handle goons and strong swan song stutter studs
in a hooverville compton or peach filled swamp 
peer pressure or preening solid rarity  rocks the house in gilded glory
of violent opposition and instigators 
sugar boils the night into what the day's dough fails to feed
the cube rolls hard and snake eyes play a better preacher
opened to being there if goosebumps sag the performance
one can sink lip in solidarity this land is Yolanda
unless the fleece polices the first speech on a trail of tears tour
ill be there i'll be ill the handbill be unfingered 
fill those units quotas but lock felicia out
when the peckerwoods come knocking show'em the glock
mr block get back to the squad and hot rod it home
like a king on bling beating down the riot with words
just words and a strong ma and a death row left behind
full of pie in the sky pool parties while contracts contract smaller
until the pits are armed and the armpits bear cheery stones
taking the easy good fertilizer aid 
pitted bro on bro that's how the bible go, till it is gone
sez the preacher and the slave as one
goad the goed down the road and feeling bad is mighty nice
when lard and flour are the spice of life
your land is occupied Lando CaliRisen and the deathstar
warms up on the pass over punch down into purple drank
bedbugs flip worthless script in the honkytonk lie bank
what can eye get for sixty three cents but a boogie down
seduction for populism or a land free of the brave
the joads in the hood and pistons in the poetry unmoved
steaming open rustbelted hearts where engines once roamed
two movies diverged in a woods so we owned the owl
the hoot the loot and all that can't compute on a camel's eye
threading more my lie pie fulla birds that own the tiered tries
in crust we trust and in sod we bust
                                          welcome to the terradome.

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