You Are Not the Hero of this Story

from Young & Dying in the Occident Supreme by Mobley

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lyrics

You see the nation’s gaping maw
each time it yawns
away the latest outrage

Home is a sarlacc pit

Brutes aping men
making beasts out of men
women, children caged
by maps
by debt
by comfort
by razor wire
by ‘the way things are’

You can’t unsee it
Your eyes are hot and you’re poured out
burning for want of more than indignation

But, always, you cool

and the gleaming screens
remind you
how good it is
to be young and dying in
The Occident Supreme™.
All ivory and brushed aluminum.
Preening. Posing. Grinning.
Denuding the earth.

Still. Everywhere,
Between Mammon’s temples and the shelter of the overpass.
Between present and prelude.
Between us and other.
Between the last gang of souls and the next.
Between my coursing blood and yours.

There is no frontier.

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from Young & Dying in the Occident Supreme, released February 19, 2021
Musicians and instruments played: Mobley - vocals, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, piano, vibraphone, tin whistle, whistling, melodica, violin, trumpet, autoharp, programming / Melissa Treviño - Voice-over

Engineer, Mixer, Producer: Mobley

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