CAST YOUR EYES UP AT ME
GAZE AND ADORE, WORSHIP
FOR I AM WHITE, MALE
AND STRAIGHT
~
I DO NOT CARE, NO EMPATH
NO SIMP FOR YOUR FEELINGS
I CAP AND WON'T STOP
UNTIL YOU SEE
~
MY RIGHT IS MY PRIVILEGE
MY BIRTH WAS NO ACCIDENT
NO TRICK, I WAS BORN
INTO AN ELITE CLASS
~
OF ABSOLUTE MORONS
HELLBENT ON INSISTING
THAT RESISTING
IS EQUAL TO VANITY
~
ON ANY THAT STAND AGAINST ME
ON ALL WHO WOULD BE FREE
FROM THE SHACKLES
FROM THE NORMS I PROJECT
~
DO NOT REJECT THE MORALS
FOR I CAP AND WON'T STOP
DO NOT REJECT MY WAY
FOR I CAP AND WON'T STOP
~
AS I SHOOT DOWN THE LOWEST
AND CLING TO ONLY THE HIGHEST
I AM RIGHT, I AM THE RIGHT
I AM RIGHTEST AND WON'T BE LEFT
~
OUT
~
AND STILL I FEEL IT —
THE NEED TO BUY MY WAY BACK IN
~
I PAY MY MEMBERSHIP FEES
TO KEEP ME SAFE
TO HIDE MY PAST
AS ANYTHING LESS THAN A 1%ER
~
THEY ARE OUT TO GET ME
THE IMMORAL LEFT
RHETORIC METRIC-“ESORETIC”—I USE IT RIGHT, EVEN IF I DON’T
DON'T LISTEN TO FREE THINKING RADICALS
~
WHO WANTS TO BE RADICAL
WHEN YOU CAN BE
PATRIOTICAL
I DO AS I AM TOLD
WHICH MAKES ME FREER
THAN YOUzz
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Paul Stewart
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The voice you've created is intense and completely captures that idea of someone clinging to an invented sense of being "rightest." It feels like a brilliant piece of satire.
All those Don't Tread On Me license plates sure have a mighty high opinion of the masked, unidentified ICE officers pulling people off the streets into unmarked vans, don't they?
lol. Is this satire or nonfiction? can't tell! Well done, friend.
Great work all around and how true and honest you are in this work.
Ugh - far too real buddy...painfully witty and insightful stuff!
Oh Paul- might be too close to be satire
Many a true word with the usual Paul charm!!!
Damn it Paul we threw all your tea into a harbor so I didn’t have to listen to this very apt commentary!! (This is a joke that you’re Scottish, a plot point that will feature heavily if I ever write the follow up to the destroyer of worlds)
I appreciate this. You dialed right in on the insecurity that fuels white supremacists
Oh, you got your all caps piece done, lol!! This was sadly too spot on!!
This is such a sharp, biting piece. You absolutely nailed the tone.
Gosh, who sounds like that?