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I had a dream that I got bitten by a snake

Down in the Chicago rail system

That shining silver cacophony of teeth and steel

The people and the lights

The sounds and the smells of uncivilized civilization

Life hustling there

Love bustling somewhere high up

Fast, out of control

We’re out of control

Us people, us human beings, us savages

But the bite was not from a snake, after all

The bite was from the world and its hateful teeth

But I did not die inside

I rose again to the welcoming of the sun

A new day, anyway

We cannot back down

We real Amorikans

They cannot push us to the ground

With their idiocy and stupidity

Their uselessness and senselessness

Their resolute ignorance

But we real Amorikans shall pursue

Little pieces of rebellion

We shall build Uhtred’s shield wall

We shall protect and project

Little pieces of kindness and love

Call us woke

Better than being morally broke

Better than being the scum of the broken Earth.