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Ravenous (MORE!)

This entire town feeds off this prison
parasites like leeches off dead fish

MORE!
screams the town
Give me MORE!
I want more prisoners!

A woman observes
"Oh he's been here a long time
since before Joey was born"
Joey's now in college

MORE!
screams the prison
Give me MORE!
I want more time!

seventy prisons in this state
sustain the corporations
that sustain the body politic

MORE!
screams the gov'nor
Give me MORE!
I want more prisons!

the rich black soil gives up its farms
trades them for new facilities
and soaks up the blood of the men

MORE!
screams the earth
Give me MORE!
I want more blood!

Two thousand aimless men
shuffle with stooped shoulders
hopeless and defeated

more!
whisper the men
Someone give me more!

 

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