Rain drops falling and in some places it has stop falling, this is all upon deaf ears

Countless children in too many shelters are shedding silent tears

Masses entangled in mindless consumptions, while some people are being consumed

In the atmosphere grey stacks are emitting poisonous fumes

Our young are being born with sickness, we can’t even pronounce

Pharmaceuticals measure their profits by the ounce

Wasting our nation’s treasures and lies about, weapons of mass destruction

Meanwhile for the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, there is only microscopic reconstruction

Bridges falling down in the milieu of ten thousand lakes, And politicians sliver along on their bellies like snakes

The elderly sit alone boarded up in heat

Choosing between their medicine and food to eat

Schools are closed even when they are open

Real learning has stopped, education is only a token

Prison walls are bursting loose at the seams

Now tell me from this narrative: What do you gleam?

It is the state of the nation, I say

Yes it is the state of the good old US of A

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