Bring Home That River? (Flint)

from Where the Wasteland Ends by Poor Player

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Bring home that river?  I am about to lose my mind
Bring home that river?  But what might your microscope find?

The A,B,C's of thievery?
The 1,2,3's of fake democracy?
4, 5, 6 of slick takeover schemes?
A disaster capitalist’s messed up wet dream?

Bring home that river? City gone broke by design,
Bring home that river? The powerless pinned to a contrived bottom line

The city is famed for a sit down strike
Citizens who stood up were told take a hike
Poor folks can drink from poisoned pipes
Cost cutting solution’s coming down the pipe!

Bring home that river? From the tap, mess up a child’s mind
Bring home that river? Keep swallowing it confuse you for life

The governor’s name rhymes with spider
Inner city mother—his lackeys deride her
But the PR fog ain’t hard to decipher
Skin color still can sentence you for life

Bring home that river?  Send bottled water to the Great Lake State
Bring home that river? What’s the tax on damnation man made?

When big business swings its family jewels
Their game is to treat people just like tools
For public plunder investors privately drool
For their pound of flesh, ain’t no cut too cruel

Bring home that river?  City father’s pants are on fire
Bring home that river?  Mighty white of you to apologize

I hereby declare an emergency
‘Fore they install another puppet to count beans
Bend the law of the land to its knee
A blue chip coup to steal the country from you and me!

Bring home that river,  what did your microscope find?
By whom shall we be delivered? By our own hands, that’s the image magnifying

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from Where the Wasteland Ends, released April 19, 2019

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Poor Player Detroit, Michigan

Motor City folk rock Americana born of beverages, Poor Player takes to the stage with a hopped up grab bag of American riddles and laments. Saluting the guy flying a sign beside the highway exit, zigzagging through the post-industrial prairie, Poor Player is all about finding the roots beneath the rubble, the green beneath the ruin, the folk in the f*d up, & the beauty in the city gone to seed. ... more

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