American

 

 

            It’s a shell exploding

            Throwing a dead child into the arms of a mother

            On the television news of Iraq

 

            And there is this heater

            In the yard next door

            For the outside

 

            It’s people still without running water

            Dying of malaria in 2008

            Told not to use condoms by the religious in America

 

            Coupled with people screaming

            At six minutes

            In the McDonald’s line

            For one dollar food

 

            It’s a headline that says

            Tens of millions in China snowbound

            Without any rescue possible

 

            Under a headline that says

            Boiler fall kills one

            In Tennessee

 

            It’s the guy who

            When I talk of these things

            Says I hate America

 

            Open eyes won’t stop this shit

            Greed is eternal

            And I’d rather be here

            Where one can be greedy

            Than there

            Who wouldn’t

            Still

 

            They don’t die because they hate freedom

            They die because we don’t share it