Under Patronage

Under the patronage of the President,          

         my mother gave birth to me,                                     

                                                in a backward hospital.    

Under the patronage of the President,          

         I managed to live through all                                       

                                                  the known childhood diseases.    

Under the patronage of the President,          

          I graduated from high school,            

               went on to college,            

               then,                 

                         I ventured out into the real world,                                

                                                into the real world,                                                     

                                                                                outside.    

And today,              

         and under the bloody patronage                        

                             of the fucking selfsame President,                           

                                  I shall put an end                                             

                                                          to my miserable,                                                    

                                                                    and worthless life.       

For I have finally found out                           

                               what I should have known                                          

                                                       way from the start,                                         

                                                       way from when I was still                                                        

                                                                                     in the cradle,              

          that there was no freedom                                       

                                             under patronage,                   

                  or justice,                   

                  or peace,                   

                  or dignity,               

          and that there could never be.                                         

                                                        But I yearn to be free.                                            

                                                               I yearn to be free.  

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