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i got those human blues

well i woke up this morning

and i turned on the news

its november the fourteenth

i got those human blues

 

think i’ll write me a poem

thats what i’m expected to do

sympathise with the families

tell them i feel it too

 

i got the human blues yeah

lord knows i got those

human blues

 

my daddy blames the niggers

my mummy blames the jews

i think i’ll blame the muslims

thats what they tell me to do

 

said its gotta be isis

popping bombs to subdue

death to the infadels motherfucker

with those human blues

 

i got the human blues yeah

lord knows i got those

human blues

 

just another hashtag

someone else to accuse

man were dodging the problem

were a virus with shoes

 

better call the watchmen

we need a judicial review

maybe bomb some more brown kids

give them the human blues

 

i got the human blues yeah

lord knows i got those

human blues

 

flatten all of the pakis

send the polish home too

man i blame the romanians

for all this hullabaloo

 

i say we bomb the koreans

thats fucking long overdue

lets nuke everybody

thats how we’ll push on through

 

i got the human blues yeah

lord knows i got those

human blues

 

 

◄ marrow

mitochondrial blues ►

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Stu Buck

Sat 14th Nov 2015 23:45

thanks all. quite right, horrible day. my parents live in france and we have friends in paris who were about half a mile up the road. still, watching the main news channels is a lot like only reading every other word in a story. you can never get the whole picture. every time something like this happens i feel like crawling under a rock in shame. whoever is responsible cant be a human being like me. can they?

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Patricio LG

Sat 14th Nov 2015 22:21

Reading you poem made me feel very schizophrenic emotionally. it definitely shows how fucked up it all is

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raypool

Sat 14th Nov 2015 15:14

There are always platitudes to fall back on Stu. Or failsafe prejudices ; you've made all that very clear and it is depressing. The trouble is individual deaths leave a vacuum in the long years ahead long after those zealots have passed over, brushed over by the long broom of history. Ray

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