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Capitalist Intercourse

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When Economics
has sex
with politicians
and Law
it spawns Asylums
which
lock up the poor
whether
dragged off to Jail
or
sent off to war
It's the
cell or the trench
for you that's
in store.

 

Words and image by Tommy Carroll

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