An open letter to all scumbags

This is a message to all the scumbags of the earth

To all the people who treat other people like dirt:

I wish ya well, ya nasty cunts

Even if you've earned a little hell, yeah, to be blunt

You might be common assholes or greedy billionaire shits

You might be prejudiced sexists, racists, or nationalists

But if you’re not kid killers

Or unrepentant murderers

And if you’re not pedophiles

Or anything quite so vile

Then I can still wish you well-- so what if you're a heartless bitch?

So what if seeing you cry might scratch an itch?

So what if you're a narcissistic, lying gaslighter?

So what if you're a sadistic backstabbing, assbiter?

So what if you shun your own kids and give old women black eyes?

So what if nobody will mourn when you die?

I'll still wish you well anyway

I hope you’re just swell everyday

And it’s not some ploy to make me sound less crappy

The real truth is: even scumbags deserve to be happy

And I mean that shit!

So what if there’d be more peace if you ceased to exist?

So what if you don't care who you harm and abuse?

So what if you're at fault and alarms are no use?

I don't think you can help being aloof

And anyway the fact of your being is itself proof

Of personhood and your human life:

I just wish you could live without lies, greed, and strife

So what if you’re basic? You still deserve basic rights

What does it matter if you’re always looking to fight?

Anyway, scum, I’m giving some free advice

Stop living like a pest and for once try to do right

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Authors note:

Just a bitch session about scumbags, especially deadbeat parents.

I happen to know one who cut visitation with her own kids last weekend, to go have fun at an amusement park. She did the same thing this weekend to go to a party on the lake.

She also complains that paying the state mandated minimum in child support is ruining her life (because she can't afford to go on as many vacations). And that having an order of protection filed against her for assaulting a senior is people "out to get her”.

I have a worse opinion of her than anybody I've ever known in person. But she's not on the scale of monsters like Hitler or Netanyahu, so I still want her to be happy. I just don't think "basic bad" people actually deserve to suffer.

I just prefer that they'd find ways to pursue their happiness without using or abusing others.

Also, here's two versions of the song I was thinking off while venting this one: (Kick me by Danny Elfman)

(epilepsy warning)

feat Iggy Pop: