It’s only a mob, and it’s only treason And undemocratic if for the wrong reasons And silence is violence, and so are some words And riots are proper—from certain unheard
And I am not saying any violence is just Or that institutions have maintained our trust But the slippery slope we are now sliding down Was waxed up & watered by click-chasing clowns
By partisan media, and Q-anon threads And bullies on pulpits with nought in their heads And teens on their tablets, and moms on phones And dads writing screeds while they’re working from home
And Woke justice warriors—and Anti-Woke, too! All of us working to tighten the screws Til the threads are unthreaded, and what joins us is strained And begins to buckle and cannot maintain
Order or ✨discourse✨—but only shrieks & flung fists And were any to ask how we came to this The answer is simple: this eternal flame war Is mostly baseless emotion—which we’re all suckers for
Benjamin A Boyce
It’s only a mob, and it’s only treason
And undemocratic if for the wrong reasons
And silence is violence, and so are some words
And riots are proper—from certain unheard
And I am not saying any violence is just
Or that institutions have maintained our trust
But the slippery slope we are now sliding down
Was waxed up & watered by click-chasing clowns
By partisan media, and Q-anon threads
And bullies on pulpits with nought in their heads
And teens on their tablets, and moms on phones
And dads writing screeds while they’re working from home
And Woke justice warriors—and Anti-Woke, too!
All of us working to tighten the screws
Til the threads are unthreaded, and what joins us is strained
And begins to buckle and cannot maintain
Order or ✨discourse✨—but only shrieks & flung fists
And were any to ask how we came to this
The answer is simple: this eternal flame war
Is mostly baseless emotion—which we’re all suckers for
(Do something constructive in real life today.)
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