Rhys Langston The Governor's Water Glasses
Shouts out to U. S. V. I. (what up)
Full staffed
Knee taken was
Drought tolerant
Flag spread
Pole poking my bio-politick
Left my theory at that pipeline
School was prison discourse
Niacin in vitamin
My breakfast choice
Each morning woke up
Spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered
Each morning woke up
Spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered
I spread eagle
For the governor's water glasses
(spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered) [X3]
I spread eagle
For the governor's water glasses
(water, water, water, water, water, water, water)
Spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered
Each morning woke up
Check for fema
Flood's lines on the foyer
X on the principal, door
Directed deposit
Material benefit liminal
For four score and ye olde yore
Posted no bills
Meddlesome weeks' deals
Futures on meals
On wheels
Local produce, a metaphor for irony still
'cause we were shipped in
To front the bill
I spread eagle
For the governor's water glasses
(spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered) [X3]
I spread eagle
For the governor's water glasses
(water, water, water, water, water, water, water)
I said my brother was a rolling stone
I was a Standing Rock
Everyday pops came home
And popped that Rolling Rock
He Marshall Planned his Glock
Cleaned it with his tv dinner
Only Black cop to join the blocking line
That electoral winter
Facing down the First Nation, all seconds
Safeties ready to empty the chambers
Aquifers languid and tepid
Shrugs at state-sanctioned danger:
Tears protest gas
Ice, yeah, money anger
(spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered)
Shouts out to that young god Chaac
That made them clouds pop
Condensed our percentage into droplets
To fall on our flock
Cut out the beating heart and
Laid it in the pyramid top
Yeah, do that to lawmakers
So we can reap crops
Harvest redlined agribusiness
On subsidized blocks, hot
Swiping cards for a single use plastic
Acronyms fail to mention
Yo, this water ain't elastic
I spread eagle
For the governor's water glasses
(spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered) [X3]
I spread eagle
For the governor's water glasses
(water, water, water, water, water, water, water)
I was lead to the content of these pipes
(spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered)
I was lead to the content of these pipes
(spread eagle)
I was lead to the content of these pipes
(spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered)
I was lead to the content of these pipes
(spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered)
I was lead to the content of these pipes
Environment, our own terror site
I was lead to the content of these pipes
(spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered)
I was lead to the content of these pipes
Became a victim to my own rights
By their own right
