‘keeping your brain free’
you can’t be a revolutionary
and a collaborator
while keeping your brain free
you can’t build up your CV all week
and tear it apart on weekends
it would be like having two sheets of paper
thinking you’re destroying capitalism
but sawing the pieces back together
the next day
you can’t be a revolutionary
and a collaborator
while keeping your brain free
you are creating your own Sisyphus’ inferno
condemned to roll your stone up the hill
and see it fall down everyday
only to pick it up again
you can’t be a revolutionary
and a collaborator
while keeping your brain free
the craziest of all is
how you make sense of
your condition
saying we all need to eat
but you want to eat well
in a world you say doesn’t feed all
you take people’s oxygen
then give them a drink
under another hat
you can’t be a revolutionary
and a collaborator
while keeping your brain free
under your different hat
i see the same eyes
the same thoughts
and the same name:
one of my own
you can’t be a revolutionary
and a collaborator
while keeping your brain free
i don’t like to hear your constant talk
that reassures your troubled thoughts
lying to yourself
the two hats sawn together, poorly
you can’t be a revolutionary
and a collaborator
while keeping your brain free
i care about you too much
i really do
but i can only watch
waiting for you to leave your heavy rock
and walk away
eating less but breathing well
i’ll be there this day
to feel the sunshine on our skins
free from weight
free from duty
free
free
poor but free
you can’t be a revolutionary
and a collaborator
while keeping your brain free
‘what a fucking strange planet’
i met this guy
he told me
why are you sad
you are so rich
i answered him
you only see in me
your own worry
you say the uk needs shrinks
i say europe needs social justice
how can we party
without worry
when people
drown in our own sea
i drown my worries into that drink
in an eco-cup please
what a fucking strange planet
what is the link between
me dancing tiptoes after a long week
looking after my drink
i don’t want to be spiked
and human rights -
really,
tell me