Business Suits and Combat Boots

Does history guide you or do you set out to change it? Breached, not broken Breached, not broken Do you set out to change me? Thank you for that, you giant human rat Fuck your skinned-alive designer wear Fashion shades and salon hair Heels to help where nature failed Artificial teeth and nails The wasp's nest expands So, clap your hands It's her, the one black woman who's success, you don't credit to Affirmative Action The way of the future is corporate sponsors raising your kids Maternal love is nothing compared to what seven dollars gives Put in, suck out plastic body parts It's the ever-growing industry of cosmetic arts Bombarded with the idealized shots Dysmorphic, self-destructive plots Physical flaws are a mental blank, a mental blank Physical flaws are a mental blank So pay your surgeons, it's your parents who you should thank These eyes are blind to several hundred left behind (lest we forget again) But the border is breached but not broken Who tries to find the several hundred left behind When the border is breached but not broken? Co-existing in a twisted society Where youth is a crime and wasteful sweat-shop expenditures is how luxury is defined Now the KKK has found a new masquerade Fuck your self-proclaimed supremacy, you hide your face and your shame Identify right and wrong when all fact is merely opinion You cannot know the sweetness of victory without first dwelling in the agony of defeat These eyes are blind to several hundred left behind (lest we forget again) But the border is breached but not broken Who tries (who tries) to find the several hundred left behind But the border is breached, the border is breached, the border These eyes are blind to several hundred left behind We forgot again