Plague Songs - Bad Magic / by Rich Hobbs

All human beings start out female,

The human species started black;

It takes some pretty fucked-up magic

    To turn all of that on its back.

All human beings are born as social

Beasts who need to help and share

But fucked-up wizardry has fucked us

    Convincing us we mustn’t care.

All human beings are born to crave love

It’s hardwired in as we gestate

How fucked up is the occult fuckedness

    Enchanting us to make us hate?

And if you don’t believe in magic,

Are immune to legerdemain

How else have we become so fucked up

    We’ve fucked over the human brain?

What sleight-of-hand, classic distraction,

Ace of spades palmed up a sleeve

Could consequently fuck us so much

    That we believe what we believe?

That fucking chanted mantra: This is

The one way fucking things can be,

We’re only human, & if you’re quiet

    You might be human too. Fuck me!

This fucking curse is special magic,

Of church bells, banks, and cringing knaves,

Accountants, clowns and riot cops

    All underpinned by grateful slaves

An ancient curse that takes some shit,

And shapes it to some fucking thing

Waves a wand, knocks back a potion,

    Hocus pocus! Here’s your king!

All human beings have been enchanted

The bad way, in this living hell,

So break the charms, spit out the potion,

    Crack mirrors - and let’s fuck this spell.