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Colony Rot

from Difference Engine by Known Universe

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We call this a home, untamed, untouched by human memory
We call this our own, unnamed lands pristine throughout the centuries
We call this destiny, chosen peoples invented dreams
fight or flight, might makes right, there's no empathy

I was not born here, but call me a native son
White saviors with right behaviors to change these native ones
You got spears, I got guns, you got land, I got funds
You often offering us more of what we already won

I know my place, among higher consciousness my mind relates to
divine rights of kings my kind stay faithful
ill betray you, my word is worth less than your myths
Your gods you forfeit, your options now: Forget or forgive
your stories not important,  learn ours, imported, paint borders
now we cordon off forests to make our fortunes

When our blood mixes, counter to survival of the fittest
create castes, sub-systems, anguish within genetic suspicions
Weaponize diversity, history's verses forget the worst of me
My name will be an anniversary
furthering, trauma inter-generational
struggle for meaning, with no stated goals

you find no hope where only hatred grows
colony rot, let me ask who will take control?

We call this a home, untamed, untouched by human memory
We call this our own, unnamed lands pristine throughout the centuries
We call this destiny, chosen peoples invented dreams
fight or flight, might makes right, there's no empathy

My eyes dazzle by reflections of glass monuments
Statesmen who slayed communists, patriarchs of the populace
Annotated environments means less you know
keep pumping by any means, like stilts in my ventricles
Facades dimensions are form found and calculated
To blend shadows, return on investment is calibrated
To the tenth decimal, we are fed powdered vegetables
Buy and sell seconds, never mind hours in our schedules

My man squire makes a living fixing boxing matches
Said its better for his habits, cant float on Walgreens' average
Hes hooked on caffeine, but we all got to up our output
From code monkeys to hired hands reeling in halibut
But by how much? Saline solution to jogs memory
cells remembering, to wake and stop the hemorrhaging
Mistake ancient artifacts as bones of dragon
We cloned for brackets, ingest unknown reactants
Study graphs for Omens shown to match with
Same shock waves that block free flow of traffic
We call this a home, untamed, untouched by human memory
We call this our own, unnamed lands pristine throughout the centuries
We call this destiny, chosen peoples invented dreams
fight or flight, might makes right, there's no empathy

Lay of the land, punctuated by unmarked
Graves that we've slated to span

Operations through where perch breed, we mustn't awaken the clans
Porous pipes that spill poison right Where they've taken a stand
Its imperative, forget what's Aryan or American
we need areas to mine fairy dust, a false hope will carry us
Our armies return damaged, traumatized and in tatters
we told them to win battles, not trained to come back to
A place were we chant valor, while they sleep between towers
surrender to grant power to contracts that advance cowards

Never mind how platoons raked bodies over coals
left boulders over roads, deaths overt odor rose
to remind me how my story was over blown
All glory to metropoles, with divine overtones
A dmz as Demarcation, EMTs restart patients
resuscitate each heart pacing, we all die slow in isolation

My neighbors locked and loaded they scared to be frightened of unknowns when
thermo-siphons can longer keep out cold winds from flowing
 
No faith tomorrow comes after the setting of the sun
Freeze our zygotes, delete our files, we can restart what we've done
Can we estimate timescales, how much we probably got
Peel back veneers to reveal cankers and Colony rot

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from Difference Engine, released January 8, 2020

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