Free Pass
Exclude the outgroups
Free Pass.
Objectify women
Free Pass.
Solicit aid from a hostile foreign power
Free Pass.
Express your admiration for tyrants
Free Pass.
How long,
For how many, many more times,
Must we make excuse for our present mistake?
Smoke and mirrors,
Misdirection -
Blink and away goes the last shock,
A new one takes its place.
Sleight of hand
Brains full of hidden daggers
The new aristocracy plies its smooth dark magic;
Watch lies turn to truths,
Trust turn to hate,
Hopes fall to dust
Before your very eyes.
They'll do it all so prettily if we let them,
Like a Five-Star movie
They'll pull it all down,
Though first they'll cover it with glitter.
Gold's their favorite color,
It speaks the language they best understand.
So:
Stand and be counted or watch it fall?
Hide your assets
Free Pass.
Insist the world be your mirror
Free Pass.
Make the ghost of the past your vision of the future
Free Pass.
Isolate us from the world
Free Pass.
But if you care to say anything about all this,
You could find yourself an Enemy of the People
Someday soon.
GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL
DO NOT PASS "GO".
When that finally happens,
I want my Free Pass.
Copyright © William Masonis | Year Posted 2017
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