The British drew the lines in Africa with a ruler and a treaty
The Hutu and the Tutsi were a Belgian administrative category
Identity cards issued under colonial authority
Became the instrument of genocide within a century
The strategy of tension in cold war Italy was documented
Operation Gladio — NATO stay-behind networks, bombs in stations
The Red Brigades were infiltrated, some attacks were organized
By the very governments that televised their condemnations
The Iran-Iraq war was fed from both sides of the Atlantic
Rumsfeld shook Saddam's hand in eighty-three while the gas was flowing
The enemy of this decade is the asset of the last
The discord manufactured — the reconciliation owing
Amon's wolf-head and serpent-tail contain the full description
He spits the fire of past and future in a single breath
He knows which friends were parted by a hand they never noticed
He knows which enemies were made to order — made for death
The war between us was designed in a room we never entered
The hatred that divides us has a budget and a plan
Amon holds the moment just before the discord and after
Show me who profits — show me who the architect began
The great marquis has seen ten thousand manufactured feuds
He can tell the organic hatred from the engineered
Reconciliation starts with naming who lit the fire
Not just the burning — who desired it appeared
The Southern Strategy was not a secret — Lee Atwater explained it
On tape — you use the economic argument to avoid the slur
But the policy arrives at the same address as the racial one
The discord is the product — the division is the cure
For those who need the governed to be fighting one another
While the extraction of the commons continues overhead
Social media algorithms trained on outrage maximization
Feed the wound that keeps the governed too distracted — too misled
To look upward at the architecture of the system
To ask who owns the platform, who designed the feed
The discord is the business model — not the accident
Amon knows the difference — and he knows exactly who to read He can reconcile the enemies — that is also in his power
He shows them what was engineered versus what was true
The moment that the governed recognize their manufactured hatred
Is the moment that the architects have some
He can reconcile the enemies — that is also in his power
He shows them what was engineered versus what was true
The moment that the governed recognize their manufactured hatred
Is the moment that the architects have something new to do
The war between us was designed in a room we never entered
The hatred that divides us has a budget and a plan
Amon holds the moment just before the discord and after
Show me who profits — show me who the architect began
The great marquis has seen ten thousand manufactured feuds
He can tell the organic hatred from the engineered
Reconciliation starts with naming who lit the fire
Not just the burning — who desired it appeared
I am the moment before the first word