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The World Is What We Say It Is

from Twist & Type by Fish Karma

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The World is What We Say It Is

The world is what we say it is, no need to be inquisitive, but if you still feel tentative, just drink this trademarked purgative
The world is now reorganized, we draw the lines and fill the skies, there’s no more “there,” there’s only “here,” when your eyes are shut, you’ll see your choice is clear

It’s the levers you pull for the needs we fill, it’s the death you crave on the roads we build,
It’s the hate we plant, the fear you grow growing fat on the cash that flows
Our fields of corn and factory farms, your cries for war and call to arms,
The lies we write, the hate we preach, the psalms you cite (just rinse, repeat)

It’s time to march, no time to think
One step closer to the brink
You’ll be in the promised land
We’ll add it to your monthly plan

It’s your bended knee as you beg and plead for our EVs and IEDs
For the fires that we accelerate with all the products we create
It’s your widow’s weeds, our altered seeds, our function’s gain, your new disease, Your remission, our commission,
your pleas for some manumission

It’s your mothers’ pain and your fathers’ hands,
a downward dog in the shifting sands,
old laws erased, old dreams replaced,
old hopes effaced, new chains in place.
We’ll raise the old familiar sails and quote the lethal fairy tales:
Bible, Torah, or Koran; Yemen, Laos, Afghanistan

It’s time to march, no time to think
A step or two across the brink
You’ll be in the promised land
You can post it on your Instagram
The world is what we say it is, just follow our infinitives, we pull the strings of those who pull the strings that make you dance and sing, our weapons, your weapon lust, our plastic shrouds, your elastic trust, and when we’re all gone underground, we'll leave a box of thorny crowns

It’s time to march, no time to think
Millions more are at the brink
But the promised land is calling you
You’ll be a TikTok star for a minute or two

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from Twist & Type, released June 2, 2023

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