It started with three shots to the back
Deny
Defend
Depose
The killing of a multi-millionaire CEO
Rich on the back of claim denial
How appropriate for American change
to come from the barrel of a gun
Rather than the killing of classrooms of children
The 1% of the 1% begged for forgiveness
A realization that their oligarchy came from exploitation
That the game was rigged in their favor
And so we should all just stop playing
The misery of the majority
Fed on dreams of avarice
While choking on propaganda and lies
Of the American nightmare they dreamt of
So in fear of a tale of two cities
Health care became universal
The homeless housed through basic income
Politics meant service rather than riches
The soldiers laid down their weapons
No longer the servants of hegemony
The police upheld the law rather than enforced it
A right to not get shot
Rather than a right to shoot
Renewables given the subsidies of the polluters
Food became free of pesticides and price gouging
Public transportation replaced road building
Power accountable to the powerless
A country for the people and of the people
Became more than words of control
The billionaires became millionaires
Paying their fair share of taxes
For the benefit of all
A bloodless revolution in how we all chose to live
Started through the spilling of blood
One can dream.
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