Poetry
Guy Fawkes, What Have you Done to me?
I was minding my own business
When this woman made this
Remark about toxic masculinity.
I am not a special snowflake
I take critique with no bellyache
But found her words toxic with salinity.
So I did what all good men must
And fussed it was unjust
To paint me with the brush of misogyny.
It’s ...
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Friday Free Verse: Vulgarity
Meet me in the kingdom of absurdity
where we can laugh at the facts as they splatter
against the walls of our mania.
We will bathe in the entrails
of reason as it is eviscerated
by the golems of our fear.
Meet me at the altar of outrage
where we can smash the babies
of our enemies upon the ...
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What About Breakfast at Tiffany’s?
An ode to modern political discourse, with apologies to Deep Blue Something.
You say Trump is making hatred common
He's such a racist, I mean come on
And the country's falling apart
You'll say Trump has been a disaster
His administration has failed faster
than any other before
And I said, ...
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The Lord's Prayer, Updated to Reflect American Values
Bow down and worship the infallible, all-knowing, invisible hand of the free market!
Our Market, who art in Freedom™,
Hallowed be thy brand.
Thy profits come.
Thy loans be done
on Main Street as it is in Wall Street.
Give us this day our daily interest,
and forgive us our debt,
as we ...
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