Willingly In Poor Taste

it has to be a bomb, or else
it has to be a bomb or else it's no one's fault but their own
when it's a bomb, good, innocent people die
when it's the degradation of a culture, cheap punchlines are made
the bomb is the bad apple
without it, everyone in the city would be a villain

maybe what matters most is who dies
when they're white and rich, they're martyrs
when they're black and poor, they're data
you get t-shirts
we get tax hikes

kids are dying here, too
there's less blood and more pain
we prayed for yours
you sneer at ours
ours our trouble makers
yours are athletes
we have to pay for ours to play
with money we never had to begin with

when it's a bomb, you're Boston Strong
when it's poverty, you're Detroit Scum