Every Weapon Formed Against You Will Prosper (feat. Sanjay Kumar, CT Stapleton, and Jessica Zou)

Every weapon formed against you will prosper. [1] There will be no greater purpose for your life Than to quickly snuff it out. You will know the weight of the barrel In your mouth as an old friend, Its lead the sweetest honey. Nothing is all you know. You are a living black hole, A seeping void content to poison In search of something Impetuous and entitled mouth To thieve everything. [2] Only when you inevitably have No other recourse but to pull the trigger for sweet release, Will you finally contribute something of value To this bitter and indifferent world. [3] "Was it everything you wanted, sanctimonious puppet? Do you lay head heavy with self-righteous crown? Or can you feel it - the burn, the blaze, the blistering now? As laurel dissolves to hemlock, crystal to heracleum, Jewel to oleander, and gold to wolfsbane, Stand tall, befitting of your paraphernalia Please enjoy the fire in your garden of regalia." [4] Cowering lamb [5], a tumor of wasted days Forever will you contend with nothing and still fail [6] The only words you can ever utter that will not ring hollow is when you beg for mercy. I will smile as every finger is bent over until it snaps, every bone splintered in between my hands. Cut to bone, laid to waste. You will seek comfort and find none Your only reprieve will be death. Miserable, fucking wretch You are not eternal [7] Nor are you beyond my reach. [8] I want your fucking head. You’ve fallen from your ramparts Built on the bodies of brothers. Impaled upon righteous spears, New life blooms from your blood [9] Cut to bone, laid to waste. Slain by every tongue risen against you, [10] A sweet and slow death borne from a thousand cuts [11] Your blood will wet the jaws of vengeance, Its thirst just barely slaked A hunger only soothed When all life seeps from your eyes. [12] [Interviewer]: “... Was he violent? Could he be violent?” [Georgia Jackson]: “Only if people were violent to him. I can be violent also and I imagine so can you. You see, that’s the whole story of America. They take their violence and turn it back around on somebody else. [I don’t have to talk about American violence, you can look all over the world and see American soldiers everywhere, fighting in other people’s countries and killing them. So if I were running a country in America, I wouldn’t open my mouth about violence. As many people as they’ve murdered in Vietnam in the past ten years and they’re going to talk about violence? As many Black people that get killed everyday in this country and nobody knows or cares and they’re going to tell me about violence? How they wiped out a whole nation of Indians[sic] and they’re going to say something to me about violence? I don’t want to hear it.]” [13] [1] Isaiah 54:17a [2] Stanza written by Jessica Zou. Her comments: 'The original and final stanzas went through a few revisions to make it more vocal-friendly! The original was inspired by the telltale heart and contained an additional theme of uprising and revolt against exploitative oppressors.' [3] Victim, Vitriol [4] Stanza written by Jessica Zou [5] Cowering Lamb, Antichrist Siege Machine [6] Line written by Jessica Zou. Her comments: 'The garden of regalia consists of plant species all poisonous to the touch resulting in painful skin reactions from chemical toxicity.' [7] The Sword of Damocles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles) [8] The Guillotine and the French Revolution [9] Stanza written by CT Stapleton [10] Isaiah 54:17b [11] Lingchi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingchi) [12] Increasing crimes against Palestinians, immigrants in detention camps (particularly Alligator Alcatraz), and people of color in the streets of the United States. [13] An excerpt from Georgia Jackson speaking in 1971 3 weeks after her son George Jackson’s murder. (https://www.instagram.com/p/DA1OHDXs4-U/?hl=en&img_index=3)