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Pipeline

from War Against War by Nyentek

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(Beneath the ground it carries water hidden from the eye)

In urban schools with zero tolerance kids are funneled out
When vocalized, their purpose is to maintain order
So they punish the children who suffer because their guardian works

Multiple jobs in a place with artificially inflated rents
Controlled by greedy landlords profiting from white flight
Let’s throw criminals out of sight, into jail
It’s doing good for society, they say
But for whom are society and government if not their people?

How can these discriminatory policing and punishment practices even scratch the surface

Of the reasons why these kids act out?
Only to have their faces plastered on the front page of a newspaper
Blown up so big that they’re pixelated
Because I remember how in my high school yearbook
The only blurry photo was of the custodial staff

So I’m against this pipeline that carries non-privileged youth from an alien classroom

In which corporate-controlled testing tries to turn them into obedient automatons to a prison cell where they can have the privilege of working at your DMV call center at $1 an hour

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from War Against War, released February 10, 2018

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An “adventurer in electronic sounds-poetry” whose music is “mind-bending, at times blissfully bizarre.”

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