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Cannibal Town

from What Went Wrong by Micah Sommersmith

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Look out for number one, I guess.

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So, you were fairly young when you came into this world (as a boy, as a girl, it doesn't really matter). See, your parents saw in you all they wanted for themselves; you were going to be their own little them, only better. So they scolded you, they praised you, they molded you, they raised you to do everything that they had learned that you're supposed to do... and so when the neighbors say "What a great little kid!" well, it's your parents they're applauding, not you.

And when they take you down to Cannibal Town
They will make you feel right at home
But there's a dirty little secret about Cannibal Town
It's filled with cannibals

Now, your parents are busy; your parents have jobs, and others have the same problem too. So to keep you kids from forming unsupervised mobs, they send the whole lot off to school, where you learn things like Geography, Science, Orthography, the Stories of the Brave and the Bold, and things like Knowing you Place and Hiding you Face and Doing Whatever You're Told.

And when they take you down to Cannibal Town
They will make you feel right at home
But there's a dirty little secret about Cannibal Town
It's filled with cannibals

Now you find yourself working in an office in the city in a building made of metal and glass, and your primary duties include sleeping through meetings, looking pretty, reading memos and kissing ass. And they don't pay you much but it's just enough to keep you suffering in silence, not considering violence, oh it's a science. You don't buy it? I don't hear you deny it, and you're so quiet I've a feeling I won't see you at the riot.

All right, so when you were a child you thought like a child, and you acted like a child and you smelled like a child. Now as a woman or a man, there's a change of plan: can't keep your damn head in the damn sand, gotta take a stand. See, everybody wants something, and most think that maybe they can get it from you, but the truth is this: if you don't get remiss, they can really only get it if you want them to.

And when they take you down to Cannibal Town
They will make you feel right at home
But there's a dirty little secret about Cannibal Town
It's filled with cannibals

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from What Went Wrong, released May 1, 2010

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