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Blood of the Poets

from American Boy - 50 Years of Protest by Bill White

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from the album The Human Conditional

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Pino Pelosi murdered Paolo Pasolini Along with unnamed others
Pino claimed he was assisting A man and two brothers
But as it goes in political thrillersThe boy was convicted as the lone killer
A teenage rent boy Who wasn’t worthy of his hire
Who backed out of the act when it came down to the wire
But pasolinis death w more complicated than that
He was murdered by fascist rats

the blood of a poet is not the blood of christ
it doesnt promise salvation or eterna
but it queches the thirst of the fascist stampde
but they cant kill the words they just pake them bleed
and the crowd is thirsty for blood and not afraid to show it
but what do they gain from the blood of the poets

Lorca was executd on government orders Taken from his house and shot
Thrown into a ravine And left there to rot
Some say he was a victim of the Spanish civil war
Which is to say he was murdered because of what he stood for
But his body has never been found
Some say he was burned Spme say he was drowned
But one thing is agreed He was murdered by Francos regme

the blood of a poet is not the blood of christ
it doesnt promise salvation or eterna
but it queches the thirst of the fascist stampde
but they cant kill the words they just pake them bleed
and the crowd is thirsty for blood and not afraid to show it
but what do they gain from the blood of the poets

They said prostate cancer killed Pablo Neruda
But that is a god damned lie
The poet confided in his chaufferur Right before he died
The doctor poisoned me he said
Now nobody agrees on the cause of death
But sure as Neruda was a communist
and died two weeks after pinochets coup
He was a victim of a facist conspiracy
That had silenced President Allende too

Victor Jara and the 6000 to the stadium were forced to go
prisoners confined to the bleachers pinochets military in the arena below
randpm fire from the machine guns like bells of death they tolled
down the ailes into the field the slaughtered prisinors rolled
victor walked into the arena 4 soldiers helf him down
cur off his guitar fingers told him to sing to the crowd
6000 in the bleachers joined him in freedons song
the machine guns opened fire again 6000 voices gone

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from American Boy - 50 Years of Protest, released May 26, 2018

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