It Is What It Is from the forthcoming solo album My Name Is Will by Mark Will subscribe: https://markwillwrite.substack.com/ lyrics: My dear Pollyanna Our country’s gone wrong The republic is an empire now And it’s been waging war for too long Our president’s a criminal His opponent’s just the same We can’t vote our way out of this Red and blue are both to blame We traded our freedoms For a poor man’s 1984 They promised us safety But this life is such a bore And it is what it is . . . Yes, it is what it is . . . It is what it is And that’s all it is It ain’t what it isn’t ’Cause it is what it is My dear Pollyanna Our planet’s melting down There’s plastic in the ocean There’s poison in the ground I read that nine nations Have nukes that they can use But they’ll never tell you If you watch the TV news Now there’s some new virus Infecting all who breathe the air They made it in a biolab Lord Death is everywhere And it is what it is . . . Yes, it is what it is . . . It is what it is And that’s all it is It ain’t what it isn’t ’Cause it is what it is My dear Pollyanna I know you don’t love me anymore We’ll never be happy In the way we were before You say that I failed you You say I’ve been untrue But I’ve looked in the mirror Well, baby, how ’bout you? Oh, it is so painful Every time you say farewell But, darling, I’ve been learning How to make a heaven out of hell And it is what it is . . . Yes, it is what it is . . . It is what it is And that’s all it is It ain’t what it isn’t ’Cause it is what it is ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gYWbQ9Q6yQ

Ghanniy Oyedele, host of Last Week in Africa, joins Mark Will on the Books Are Burning! podcast to discuss Wole Soyinka's 2012 non-fiction book "Of Africa" original podcast posted October 1, 2023: https://markwillwrite.substack.com/p/... subscribe to Mark Will's newsletter: http://markwillwrite.substack.com #BooksAreBurning #WoleSoyinka #OfAfrica ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNOROrGrzuY