<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=387094" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>American Slaves</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">blatent mediocrity, constant uniformity, <br>tongues pierced with an anvil.<br>eyes fogged from realization, <br>minds trained for situations, <br>paper hearts, electric candles.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">cry of desperation, self becomes a nation, <br>stepping over bodies without heads.<br>the newscaster plots his story, <br>selling condoms in purgatory, <br>fanning the flames o'er the dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ghosts in hell, souls without conscience.<br>take another pill for deliverence.<br>children buried in unmarked graves.<br>oil rigs pumping, American slaves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">flag waving, constant craving, <br>neon lights blink on and off.<br>sex heals, addictive thrills, <br>money dressed in naked bills, <br>drool on the chin, barking cough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">color fears, political cures, <br>families lost to the raging sea.<br>morals traded, hard and jaded, <br>the sick are shunned, the poor are hated, <br>only the few can afford to be free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ghosts in hell, souls without conscience.<br>take another pill for deliverence.<br>children buried in unmarked graves.<br>oil rigs pumping, American slaves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Cockrell">Eric Cockrell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=387094" data-title="American Slaves de Eric Cockrell" data-description="blatent mediocrity, constant uniformity, tongues pierced with an anvil. eyes fogged from realization, minds trained for situations, paper hearts, electric candles. cry of desperation, self becomes a nation, stepping over bodies without heads...."></div> </div> </div>

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