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Lady Day vs. the State

from Night Danger by Alien Boys

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oh can you feel it heavy, thickening up the air –
they said it reeked of filth and claimed a war on fruit she bared eradicate the drugs, well they eradicated her
because her words expressed that revolution should occur
isn’t wild how the structural violence that is acted on drug users is
built to keep them out of sight and
social machinery of this oppression exists because its end goal is silence and it’s
built to keep them out of mind and
our politicians pretend social conditions don’t play into the mission of
keep the war on the poor active
all intersections – people’s social locations – affect whether they’ll make it out of these places alive or in body bags
Billie stood in defiance, refused to play their games they sent in Jimmy Fletcher to try to destroy her name convictions made her unable to play in cabarets
no places left to sing, no play to play for Lady Day
she triedto show them all that she was being framed
she checked herself into a place where she thought she’d be safe at 44 they came, locked her to the hospital bed
a few cents in the band, fifteen 50s strapped to her leg
and isn’t something how the basic assumption is that drug users often have a
moral failure to get over
addiction’s a choice they should not have a voice because the only remorse they feel
is when they are left without help
cold turkey tactics meant to torture our addicts lead to future suspicions around
anything that claims its treatment
body count rises and the overdose crisis is a direct side effect of the bullshit war on drugs that’s rooted in all this othering
the harder the enforcement, the harder come the drugs – criminalize us and institutionalize stigma
the harder the enforcement, the harder come the drugs – criminalize us and mercilessly destroy us all

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from Night Danger, released January 31, 2019

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