[Intro]
One, two, three, four, five!
[Stanza]
Burning bushes pop across the screen
Threads of prayers between watch duty app notifications
Evacuate Hollyweird
Gridlocked sparks of fear
An arsonist's wet dream rolling down Runyon Canyon
Weather in the mind
Santa Ana's hand shivering against the window
Shattered winds, ash on the lung, a sky of blazing breath
A flame in the distance looking back
The hue of cough, the scent of tickling sneeze
It is not rain (it is not rain)
Dry as silence in the dragon's mouth
Boulevards between capitalism's teeth
A neon cotton candy cloud hovers over Koreatown buildings at midnight
Hungry for water, hungry for water
A rusted sunset
Some say smart meters, directed energy weapons, or Edison power lines are to blame
An oligarch's impending inauguration
The mayor's in Ghana for Detty December
Neoliberal Americans in Africa on the rise
From Palisades to Palestine
An actress compares the LA oceanfront to Gaza
Never mentions the Rafah border
The cutoff of two thousand aid trucks
Neglects to mention body bags, rubble, or the Israeli snipers aimed at children
But everyone's donating their wardrobe to people without closets
Can a millionaire be homeless?
All of a sudden, we know the meaning of community
All of a sudden, the spirit of giving is in the air
The people kindle around the flame
Nothing like disaster to shock a heart into beating
The feel-good volunteers did Reiki before they dropped off outfits for people with no events to attend
Skid Row knows how to read the room less
The undocumented avoid handouts framed in the halls of fascism
To be on house arrest with no house, just arrested
Everyone's worried about clean air
HEPA can't filter this corruption
Maybe, maybe socialism is on its way
Look at us
Look at us who took the breeze for granted
Running faucet of dreams, mutual aid
Octavia Butler newscasting premonitions from a gravesite in Altadena
The ghosts of consequence stain the air
What's the insurance policy for chickens coming home to roost?
What's the insurance policy for chickens coming home to roost?
Dumpster diving
The nudge that brings us to kneel
Everyone is living their life on layaway
Buy now, pay later
Kidnapped by mass ice-cold blooded agents
SOS formation of bodies near the Everglades
Gullible, low frequency, no research, no risk-taking
Four drunk travelers with bloodshot eyes sip on sweating beer cans just off the corner, waiting out the downtown protest
A trans woman in a burgundy crop top with yellow geometric sunglasses and an ivory umbrella shielding the sun sips on iced tea from her straw
The universe is universing
The tow truck tricksters try to boot the tires of the people
Pawns peddling for the state
Every job
Every job can be undone by the will of the worker who sees fit to serve a good greater than paid personal pocket delusions
Troops are everywhere
A country torn apart, doom-scrolling debris
The what can you do for me? Cash App me in my caption
Get-over, get-ahead culture, open-tabs generation in the echo chambers of greed
A bunch of individuals who want to go viral over commentary
All caps, baby boomer text threads
No spine-having niggas
Dumb as doorknobs
When people show you who they are
Be-leave them
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