#subdivison

Day 4

White people are so scared of Black people  they bulldoze out to the country and put up houses on little loop-d-loop streets and while America gets its heart cut right out of its chest the Berlin wall still runs down main street  separating east side from west  and nothing is stirring not even a mouse in the boarded up stores and the broken down houses so they hang colorful banners off all the street lamps  just to prove they got no manners, no mercy,  and no sense  and i wonder then what it will take for my city to rise first we admit our mistakes  and then we open our eyes  the ghost of old buildings are haunting parking lots in the city of good neighbors that  history forgot i remember the first time i saw someone lying on the cold street,  i thought, "i can't just walk past here, this can't just be true."  but i learned by example to just keep moving my feet.  it's amazing the things that we all learn to do.  so we're led by denial like  lambs to the slaughter, serving empires of style and  carbonated sugar water  and the old farm road's a four-lane that leads to the mall  and our dreams are all guillotines  waiting to fall,  and i wonder then what it will take for my country to rise.  first we admit our mistakes  and then we open our eyes.  Our nation's last taker succumbs to one last dumb decision and  America the beautiful is just one big subdivision.