Debt

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The bank said     you owe us money   Oh you don’t have money?   You owe us property then     Oh you don’t have property?     You owe us your body then     Oh you don’t have a body?     Don’t lie     We see your body     We’re about to steal your body     We’re about to sell your body on the internet     We’ll take a naked picture of your body     We’ll take a naked picture of your body crawling into a fire place and sell it on the internet     Oh you don’t need water?     Your parents taught you not to drink water?     Then you can pay the fine and inject yourself with a little tuberculosis

I broke when the thunder god spoke     I took out my Glock and shot the rock     I killed the mountain with my teeth     I crawled into the school when they bombed it     I threw myself in front of a child who was about to be shot     I became an oligarch zombie child with snakes in my mouth   I was as luscious as an overfed priest     I was a communist in a really nice car     I wore beautiful shoes and the bankers bit off my toes

The zombie-interrogators said where are you from and I said the deep south   Near Patagonia       Near the block of ice where the dead children recite the abcs of zombie capitalism    Eating and vomiting     Eating and shitting   Eating and sleeping     Eating and crying

The debt war started in the mountains     Moved to the sea     Wound its way through the desert     Curved into the city     Shot into space     Sent poltergeists through the internet     Bored us   Moved us     Smoked us     Bulldozed us     Birthed us     Gave us language    Killed our desires     Depleted our portfolios      Put us to work in tunnels and coal mines     Harbored us in cornfields     Zombied us with nervous breakdowns     Sent us into contaminated mines with no masks     Cloned us for a reasonable fee   Raised us for a reasonable fee     Taught us to levitate for a reasonable fee     Fed us for a reasonable fee   Gave us lung disease for a reasonable fee     Treated the lung disease for a reasonable fee   Treated the side effects from the medication for the lung disease for a reasonable fee   Depleted our immune systems for a reasonable fee

Bore the interest on our capital     always for a reasonable fee

 


Daniel Borzutzky