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It's Underway

from Nothing In Particular by Adam Balbo

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Here I stand empty-handed.
Can I try to understand it.
The dust too stale. My skin too pale.
Jim Crow, you know, was released on bail.
It’s underway. It’s underway.

Here I sit with all this shit.
But it’s not my fault. I didn’t pay from all of it.
But value lies. The mute seem wise.
And the infant in drag’s shoes are untied.
It’s underway. It’s underway.

My friends are waiting at the train station.
They’re contemplating de facto segregation.
The car won’t come, so they feel dumb.
But their ticket stub still says one AM.
It’s underway. It’s underway.

I held my tongue ‘til I busted a lung.
Then just for fun I watched my pride get hanged.
Then I spit it out into the sun.
I don’t know why, but my mouth’s been dry
ever since that day. It’s underway.
It’s underway, underway.
It’s underway.

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from Nothing In Particular, released March 1, 2001

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