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Tacoma Center sixteen hundred suffer sleepless nights
F#E
no phone calls home to families, no reading, no Miranda rights
BAb
a second tier of prison, as if the first was not enough
F#
it seems a citizen’s great promise is
E
a place to sleep when they lock you up
B
But either way, they are commodifying someone,
EB
as if said someone ever could just fade away:
EB
the dreary endless days don’t pass like numbers on a page,
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they sit in silence ‘til they rail against the irons of their cage
BAb
But such a casual addition to supplies, to chains, to flows
F#E
tucked between logistics systems, a lock factory, a railroad
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as billboards picture families, reunited in their homes
F#
buses carry “unnamed” inmates
E
to unnamed jails, to unnamed roads
B
It is a euphemistic package for apartheid
EB
a billion dollars earned in someone else’s blood
EB
a manufactured answer to a xenophobic question:
AbF#
how to monetize the labors lost from deportation trolls
EB
Hundred and twenty five dollars a head
EB
hundred and twenty five dollars a bed
EB
and on weekends we gathered outside of the gates
AbF#
just to read off the name of the dead
Ab
I must say it’s a strange sense of sedition
F#
just to show the hopes we’d hold
EB
contract the contradict contrition
EB
of soulless states, of stateless souls
(No chords)
Oh eugenic organs, how you beat, constrict, and breathe
And oh you magic markets do detain, defeat, deceive
and on the edge of this gross city, your mixed metaphors conceive
remuneration, replication, yes, interminably.
BF#E
Oh eugenic organs, how you beat, constrict, and breathe
BF#E
And oh you magic markets do detain, defeat, deceive
BF#E
and on the edge of this gross city, your mixed metaphors conceive
BF#E
remuneration, replication, yes, interminably.