Mike Molina presented a poem at the BOOKS NOT BARS rally

If your heart feels broke and you need that fix
You struggling cuz you sick
a drug addict
What do you get?
Corrections
Coming for your ass
corrections
When you poor with no hope and trying to cope
With hungry kids between checks start hustling dope
What do you get?.
Corrections
coming for your ass
Corrections

But corrections aint correcting a system where addiction is a crime
and they ain't correcting the pay--folks hustlin dollaz outa
dimes
corrections will delete your entire lifetime
but wont wipe away the tears your baby cryin
No
corrections got spots for us all in prison
but won't make sure you got a home to live in
won't correct the politicians no matter how they livin
And don't correct the businessmen
for all the loot they stealin
No No
Corrections come up in our hoods
and our schools
they bust down our doors, breakin they own rules
they come to our cribz and wanna snatch our babies
cuz they screaming save me from this cold ass world
deadbeat government lazy
aint taking care of its responsibilities
this deadbeat government is lazy
aint taking care of its responsibilities

If your school's missing books
Teacher gives you dirty looks
fight the bully to get back some shit he took
What do you get?
Corrections
Comin for your ass
corrections
If you work for your child
Aint been to school in a while
Get caught taking what you need from the grocery aisles
What do you get?
Corrections
Comin for your ass
Corrections

and with all this wrong, all these problems to fix
You'd think a department of corrections would be looking into this
shit
Why don't they correct the CYA
For 96% of the time failing to rehabilitate
How bout fixing some living wages for folks laboring every day
Why can't they correct the budget deficiencies that done robbed
Schools and hospitals of bare necessities?
and
How bout correcting Shwarzenegger for his brutal attacks on women?
Why don't they correct poverty, homelessness, mis-education?
How bout correcting the fucked up history of this nation:
Institutionalized white supremacy and environmental devastation?
Why don't they make some real corrections?
Instead of running up in our hoods and our schools,
Busting down our doors and breaking all they own rules
Coming to our cribs to snatch our babies
cuz they screaming SAVE ME from this tore up world
deadbeat government lazy aint taking care of its responsibilities
deadbeat government lazy aint taking care of its responsibilities