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By: Cedric McClester First the rhetoric then the violence Can we have a moment of silence From hateful words and the alliance Of wing-nuts urging defiance Corporations control the people Now it’s turned violent and gotten evil They're just like the boll weevil Destroying lives of common people The rich direct the politics With constant lies and ***** tricks Then add sound bites into the mix And it confuses average hicks First the rhetoric then the violence Can we have a moment of silence From hateful words and the alliance Of wing-nuts urging defiance A Congresswoman went to town Only to have been shot down The bullet casings found on the grown Suggests he fired round after round Now that’s no way to disagree Or show anger as the case may be See what it is that he didn’t see He’s was manipulated like you and me First the rhetoric then the violence Can we have a moment of silence From hateful words and the alliance Of wing-nuts urging defiance Are you beginning to get the picture They’ve become a permanent fixture Add politics into the mixture And their bromide is no elixir For the things that clearly ail Their prescription is made to fail Because the argument has turned stale And all of them should go to jail First the rhetoric then the violence Can we have a moment of silence From hateful words and the alliance Of wing-nuts urging defiance Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2015.  All rights reserved.
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Oct 29, 2015
Oct 29, 2015 at 4:59 PM UTC
FIRST THE RHETORIC...
By: Cedric McClester First the rhetoric then the violence Can we have a moment of silence From hateful words and the alliance Of wing-nuts urging defiance Corporations control the people Now it’s turned violent and gotten evil They're just like the boll weevil Destroying lives of common people The rich direct the politics With constant lies and ***** tricks Then add sound bites into the mix And it confuses average hicks First the rhetoric then the violence Can we have a moment of silence From hateful words and the alliance Of wing-nuts urging defiance A Congresswoman went to town Only to have been shot down The bullet casings found on the grown Suggests he fired round after round Now that’s no way to disagree Or show anger as the case may be See what it is that he didn’t see He’s was manipulated like you and me First the rhetoric then the violence Can we have a moment of silence From hateful words and the alliance Of wing-nuts urging defiance Are you beginning to get the picture They’ve become a permanent fixture Add politics into the mixture And their bromide is no elixir For the things that clearly ail Their prescription is made to fail Because the argument has turned stale And all of them should go to jail First the rhetoric then the violence Can we have a moment of silence From hateful words and the alliance Of wing-nuts urging defiance Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2015.  All rights reserved.
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