They Moved Fast And Broke Things

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They moved fast and broke things

Hustling hustlers plying dirty deeds

Monetized and radicalized convenient bigotries

Brother and sister, social media feeds

Now march to the beat of their fevered screeds

They moved fast and broke things

Political discourse obscured by warders

Commodified poison they preach of the borders

Huddled masses yearning to breathe free no more

Refuse teeming along plastic draped shore

Boys who are proud await their dark chore

They moved fast and broke things

Built on a cracked foundation of lies

Brick and mortar, flesh and blood intertwined

Conquest, empire and greed fraternize

Land of the free, sprung from chains that bind

They moved fast and broke things

Backrooms and ballrooms, communities gated

Power, privelege and influence traded

Charlatans capering, engorged and elated

Endless fuel for the fires that will never be sated

They moved fast and broke things

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