Hard Power

the year was 2024 and you were chemically starving
on ozempic asking chat if your heart rate was alarming
you hit your pen and you decided
well its really no big deal
you got other things to wonder
different things to feel
so you went Dead Sea scrolling out on your phone in the shop
watching three different wars between the cat vids and the slop
and now its 2026
you got three different gigs
and they all fucking suck
but it is what it is
you're at your therapist not speaking
you're at your doctor getting meds
you're at your apartment catatonic
having a funeral for your head
then it occurs to you you really
never had a chance to think
everything got so advance
and then it all got really bleak

soft power's out
hard power's in
they'll decide who's gonna die
they'll decide who's gonna live
the future is now
and the past went fast
the room is getting cold
must be from the draft

morals and ethics are pathetic
you could be so much stronger
life's not getting better
but they're gonna make it longer
not for you big dog
they gotta different plan for that
they're working the shop up front
you'll be in a cage out it in the back
so go smash your jaw with a hammer
call us back when you're charming
what do you have to offer the autonomous drone army
the humanoid robotic counsel
of the post-atomic deterrent
pay for your technocratic fascist white nationalist insurance
there's power in the blood son
enough to take a shower
yea religion was an opiate
now they love it for the power
join or die join or die
tell me how is dying worse
I can be a cog in the machine
or a wheel on the hearse