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Let Them Eat Chaos

by Kae Tempest

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“Coz it’s big business, baby,and its smile is hideous.Top-down violence.Structural viciousness.Your kids are doped upon prescriptions and sedatives.But don’t worry 'bout that, man,Worry 'boutterrorists.The water level's rising!The water level's rising!The animals -the polar bearsthe elephants are dying.STOP CRYING START BUYING!!But what about the oil spill?Shh.No one likes a party-pooping spoilsport.Massacres massacres massacres/new shoesghettoised children murdered in daylightby those employed to protect them.Porn live-streamed to your pre-teens bedrooms.Glass ceiling. No headroom.Half a generation live beneath the breadline -oh but it's Happy Hour onthe high street!- Europe is Lost”

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“We die so others can be bornWe age so others can be youngThe point of life is live,Love if you canThen pass it on.- We Die”
“Coz it’s big business, baby,and its smile is hideous.Top-down violence.Structural viciousness.Your kids are doped upon prescriptions and sedatives.But don’t worry 'bout that, man,Worry 'boutterrorists.The water level's rising!The water level's rising!The animals -the polar bearsthe elephants are dying.STOP CRYING START BUYING!!But what about the oil spill?Shh.No one likes a party-pooping spoilsport.Massacres massacres massacres/new shoesghettoised children murdered in daylightby those employed to protect them.Porn live-streamed to your pre-teens bedrooms.Glass ceiling. No headroom.Half a generation live beneath the breadline -oh but it's Happy Hour onthe high street!- Europe is Lost”
“Hard rain falling,on all the half-heartedhalf-formedfast walkingHalf-fury, half-boredom.Hard talking.Half dead from exhaustion.Hard pushed,but the puddles keep formingDon't fall in.- Don't Fall In”
“Life's just a thing that he does.”
“Every day I've livedlives in the dayI wake up in.- Ketamine for Breakfast”
“She wipes her forehead with her wristShe's just back from a double shiftEsther's a carerdoing nightsBehind heron the kitchen wallis a black and white pictureof swallows in flightHer eyes are soreher muscles acheshe cracks a beerand swigs itShe holds itto her thirsty lipsand necks ittill it's finished.It's 4:18 a.m. again.Her brain is fullof all she's done that dayShe knowsthat she won't sleep a winkbefore the sunis on it's way.She's worried about the world tonight.She's worried all the time.She don't know howshe's supposedto put it from her mind . . .- Europe is Lost”
“The wrongs of our past have resurfaceddespite all we did tovanquish the tracesmy language is taintedwith all that we stole to control and erase and replacein a country still rich with the profits of slavery. As yet, there's been no reparations.- Europe is Lost”
“I'd never be the person I've become if you had never gone.- We Die”
“Europe is lostAmerica lostLondon is lostAnd still we are clamouring victory. - Europe is Lost”

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