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Yo! Hey there...
young man...
you seem
waayyy too cool,
doing your part
in the play...
playing the fool...
spending cash like its nothing,
talking trash... to authority figures
playing hooky from school
...learning to read these mean streets
instead... of playing life by the rules
you refuse to be "bought"
running away...
from your responsibilities
like you'll never get caught
swear, you'll never end up
...winding up getting caught up,
making cocktails, selling
wholesale and retail
...behind the counter,
helping the sly, wicked and slick,
get richer than Uncle Sam,
printing money, by popular demand
raking in more cash,
while the minimum wage stockers
waiters, fast food order takers,
fried chicken bakers
eke a meager existence,
paycheck by paycheck
just another bill away from homeless
living in debt, practically hopeless
part of the... machine world
which feeds on the dreams
of all those it possesses
and those, whose lost pride
hollows out their insides
fallen from its sweet bosom
...there is no place to hide
the militarium, has decreed
it can no longer house and feed
the indigent, unwilling or
...incompetent... unless
you have agree to proceed
to be categorized, as
...a bad seed... to be
...jailed, drugged
...or dead...
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WAIT!
...what's
the use of this
living on the edge
scratching your head
struggling to live free
finding the bandwidth
outside of the madness
...finding the key...
used to be the
... right of passage
for a young man...
to leave ...home...
to establish, his own...
family, part of the nation
i remember, when...
it used to be... When,
boy's used to look up to men
like there was something to be
i liked, doing... the way i used to do
kind of reminds me of you... too
never settle for something less
...than what's right for you
C2
