Jezebel (Radio Edit)

subservient roles in the economic skin;

the skirts will accumulate the stain of sin.

the women so lovely in their harlequin dress

could never advance past the role of caress.

hegemony will never come to an end,

as vengeance awaits with an outstretched hand.

the paltry pittance has become the norm–

if only the state would acquiesce to reform.

the steady logic of an ancient penance of establishment

impinging on the cowering souls of the damned.

the economic inequality perpetuates their plight;

the cycle of inferiority evolves.

the stammering heartbeat of the jezebel

rekindles the lust of this manmade shell.

the women so lovely in their mannequin dress

could never aspire to career success.

their labor is harvested a mile from the ground,

from harrowing harlots with a horrible sound.

disquieting judgment with an innocent grave,

abandonment welters in neurotic/erotic waves.

the steady logic of an ancient penance of establishment

impinging on the cowering souls of the damned.

the economic inequality perpetuates their plight;

the cycle of inferiority evolves.

pillars of salt piercing through the ground

recall the image of forsaken towns

and cities where status was tied to a wage,

where they fed upon money in a petulant rage.

the sexist logic of a system of askew establishment.

rapacious yearning for a profit, untamed.

peculating from the labor of the class marginalized–

this will be remediated in the end.