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With bowed head, neck exposed

Sleep deprived and starved

Shackled with lies

Driven by despair

Funerary rites

Inherited expense

Hardship obscures

Death seeping in

Get up on your knees, push on through the stench

Repeating: "it is what it is, as it should"

All subjugated

Truth obfuscated

Past arbitrary

Future obliterated