American Oxygen

America,

a  perfect lie cascaded in gold globally.

Ferguson, a testimony to my truth.

Safety, an alien neighbour,

Justice, a dead friend.

 

Hands up, don't shoot!

America, Missouri, Ferguson.

Washington waddled helplessly

under the strain of American Oxygen.

High school to Prison, systematic design.

 

Black Selenium, White Sulphur.

Trained target, fired gases, anger flaring.

Selenium's outcry met Militia opposition in Sulphur.

This oppressed though stressed will raise their hands

in fresh shots again, than die in silence.

 

O Say! Can you see?

Frustration in Selenium is Catholic.

From St. Louis to Atlanta, segregation is a phoenix

off the cremated inequality from the south

 

Trevor Martin should not die again

This system specification for marginalisation must be called to formation

Michael Brown's silence forever is a testimony to Trevor's death again

 

Michael's Coffin on its last walk home.

A promising future fried cold by systematic police brutality nationwide.

Officer Daren Wilson and his men should keep their trigger happy fingers trained on Iowa.

American Oxygen

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