"Rouge State" by Raymond Nat Turner

Rouge State

Nuclear bully’s roaring for war

Thru the mouth of its dinosaur—

At war ever since its bloody birth

Now, threatening the entire earth!

Rouge State—

warlike deadweight

you annihilate

Subjugate

Expropriate— 

you devastate

Rouge State—

Land of the inmate

you incarcerate

Infiltrate

Assassinate—

you intimidate

Rouge State, we don’t for sure—

we think revolution’ s the cure

Rouge State—

Land of apartheid

home of ‘race’ hate

where ‘whites’ tailgate 

and hallucinate 

‘blacks’ somnambulate

Rouge State—

Bombs detonate

make Peoples immigrate

you discriminate

you’re not ‘great’

Really third-rate

Rouge State, we don’t for sure—

we think revolution’ s the cure…

Poet’s note: inspired by Jimi Hendrix’s version of the Troggs' “Wild Thing”

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