Part I: Politics

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Teach me to love

Democracy

Give me that opiate

and I'll smoke it

rolled and licked

in a $1 dollar bill

Teach me how to vote

Oh Lady Liberty

in pursuit of happiness

or vice         Teach me

how to forget

your Trail of Tears

your factory gears

your thousand loving lashes

on the backs of broken promises

White Man's monied burden

scattered 'long the

campaign trail