Classified

Fire
Violence
Drugs and Guns
Where will you be classified?
Manilla folder name frame
Prison bound stamped on the inside
Classified
I am withdrawn from pain
Physical pain
Seems unpainful
With each day
With each child
The cycle is restarted
Maybe her teacher thinks
She’s retarded
Cumulatively I feel no pain
Easier said than done
Easier said than done
To maintain
When you are classified
Damage to your brain
Train of thought lost
Babies need to sleep deeply
Lullabye goodbye
Try to process
Got my job
Got my out of district address
Classified
Classified
Not just a means of
Transferring the means of
Production
We are the production of mean
Recycle the cycle of poverty keeps
City politicians
But not sidewalks clean
Classified
Classified
Classified
Prison bound
Prison bound
classified
We’ll hand you over once
we’ve failed you
burn the cross
to which we’ve nailed
you
we’ve classified
you from cradle to grave
don’t be weak,
fight like a brave
we’ll put it in your IEP.
Assault on an officer
Resisting arresting development
no hip hop hoop dream avenues
for you
to cruise
just a life and a mind to lose
to hungry bankprisonindustries
with their own stockmarkets
and CEO’s to please
classified
classified
classified
therefore your class
is last
in the star
ledger survey
why would they
educate a slave
don’t be obscene
check your amendments
number 14
classified
classified
Our schools holding tanks for empty cells
craving flesh no
need to spell
your are the means by
which they fill their pockets
to educate and send
their own kids to college
to start the process with
each generation
classification
of entire oppressed nations
Class stratification
pyramids are
broad at the bottom
tiny on top
a fraction of a percent
ruling over the masses
divided by education
they provide in their classes
Classified
Classified information
leads to pacification
the classified section has been
Hit with devastation
And classified children suffer suffocation
We must declassify
Declassify
And reorganize

Tracey Luszcz
Copyright 1999