No One Is Trying To Kill You
They don't need to come to your house and shoot you.
They can just let profit machines quietly pump poison into the groundwater.
They will not bother to sneak up behind you with a garrote.
They can simply allow factories to ooze more chemicals into the wind.
They don’t plan to drag you to a cliff and throw you off.
They can just fail to tell you there’s a hurricane coming.
They will never boldly walk up to you and cut your throat.
They can just stop making your medicine.
They don't need to creep into your grandmother's room and suffocate
her with a pillow.
They can put her nursing home out of business.
They don’t need to send tanks into your neighborhood.
They just have to make sure that staying alive costs a little bit more
than you have.